Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will almost certainly be called. Preparation for this was the business of the convention. The International Executive Board was empowered to increase the dues as it sees fit. Mr. Lewis' own salary was quietly raised from $8,000 to $12,000 per annum. He was cheered when he heaped contempt upon the "miserable coal camps of West Virginia" (nonunionized) and said that union miners would never let their standard be determined by "the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ." To signalize the U. M. W.'s proud defense of their present $7.50 minimum for six hours work...
...then let out and made to confront a ferocious bulldog; they attacked each other with the merciless fury characteristic of both species when unable to escape. During the 'high toned' entertainment indulged in by the curled darlings of the nation' a lady appeared who expressed her contempt of such specimens of humanity. Both animals were torn and bleeding, the cat being too much for the dog in the fight for life. The students despatched the tortured cat with a cane, and let the remaining one go, after which becoming alarmed they made their escape. . . . The foregoing is no slight contribution...
...Mally S. ("Mai") Daugherty, small-town Ohioan, banker, brother of the onetime Attorney General, Harry M. Daugherty, refused to appear before a Senate investigating committee. Forthwith, he was ordered arrested on a Senate warrant for contempt. The Federal District Court of Southern Ohio released Mr. Daugherty; said that the Senate was usurping judicial power. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court and gave to Congress sweeping powers. In order to legislate effectively, Congress has the right to summon witnesses, compel proper testimony, punish recalcitrant witnesses-said the unanimous,* emphatic and comprehensive decision handed...
...tame; who, in his paroxysms of rage, has massacred hundreds of thousands of his own chosen people, and would often have slaughtered the whole lot if cunning old Moses hadn't kept reminding him of 'what will the Egyptians say about it?' makes one feel utter contempt for the preachers and unfeigned pity for the mental state of those who can retail serious countenance as they per the stories of his peculiar whims, freaks and fancies...
...After four years in a position to learn the facts I am going out of office with the most hearty contempt not only for the morals and the intentions but also for the minds of the gang politicians of Pennsylvania. . . . Any machine must include a body of the lowest politicians, such, for example, as the Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest...