Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reserve, but could not drain away any considerable portion of the oil. C Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, who refused to testify before the Committee when summoned for the sixth time, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for violating Section 102, of the Revised Statutes-contempt of the Senate by refusing to testify on the grounds that the Public Lands Committee had no authority to require his testimony. Mr. Sinclair intends to fight the case to the Supreme Court and get a final decision on the power of Congress to compel testimony before its committees. The indictment...
Professor Mcllwaine makes out a very good case, but one that is in many, places open to attack. His Irish analogy, for example, is somewhat strained in places. He passes over with scant attention the imperiousness and contempt of George III for the colonies. He does not emphasize the fact that the colonial struggle was one phase of the general struggle throughout the British possessions for representative self-government, was, as Professor Hart puts it (Formation of the Union) "a part of the struggle between popular and autocratic principles of government in England". In short, Professor Mcllwaine's interpretation...
...member. Both of them referred to Prince Rupprecht as "His Majesty." The Chief of Police was forced to admit that all three of them were "hand in glove" with Hitler last November. Finally General Von Lossow left the court, refused to give more testimony, was twice fined for contempt, was sought by the police...
...true and indigenous American music, from which all native American music presumably is to spring. As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes. However, Whiteman made a speech which rang straight from his heart. He mourned and denounced the contempt with which jazz is held by the practitioners and fanciers of high-brow music, and pronounced jazz to be serious art, "the only true American musical art." Many exponents of jazz put on a varnish of this same opinion, but Whiteman expressed it with a peculiar fervency. He has been...
...Jersey justice declared that to obtain the repeal of an obnoxious law "you have but to enforce it". This is sensible enough. But in America obnoxious laws merely cease to be enforced: they are not repealed, and when contempt for the insignificant, puerile attempts of the law makers results as it must, the derision and disregard of really rational laws is not far off. Obedience to law is a habit and so is disobedience. If the energy of law-making and of law enforcement is to be spent on childish, insincere and unnecessary regulations, the main body of necessary...