Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court," went to the New York Supreme Court, which summoned the Senecas. The proud red men refused to appear in the "alien" court. Two of them-Sylvester J. Pierce, administrator of the disputed estate, and Warren Kennedy, marshal of the red men's court-were taken prisoners for contempt. Their attorney, George P. Decker of Rochester, carried the case to Washington, where it became public last week. The red men contend that the patches of Seneca land, totaling 50,000 acres, constitute an independent sovereignty. They base their bold thought not only upon immemorial residence but also upon...
...clause in the Clayton Act requiring a trial by jury for contempt proceedings was upheld...
Your action therefore in inviting Bishop Brown to officiate in your parish is in open contempt arid defiance of the authority and law of the Church of which you are a minister . . . and I hereby admonish you that if you proceed in defiance of the inhibition of the Bishop of the Diocese such action upon your part will be in direct violation of the constitution and canons of the Church, and will be regarded as conduct unbecoming a clergyman under the terms of Canon 28 of the General Convention...
...News told the public so that there would be no mistake about it. Certain readers of the Home News, however?those whom Robert Browning could have complimentedtore up their copies of the sheet and stamped upon the fragments. "Our intelligence has been insulted!" they cried?"that is, treated with contempt, an affront...
...hundred activities--even pleasure--for a selfish desire for classroom preeminence, deny the principle of reciprocity, and never once feel that they owe some self sacrificing service to the college which is doing much for them. Is it any wonder that the first and larger group feels some contempt for this type of student and this kind of scholastic activity...