Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mephistopheles, he was not the suave fiend intended by the composer. He had not the pretty wit and mocking contempt for silly humanity. He was simply Chaliapin ? boisterous, funny, romping. But the Metropolitan resounded with cheers and the Russian baritone broke the strictest rule of the house when he gave an encore to the Golden Calf song in the first...
Comptroller Charles L. Craig of New York City whose conviction for contempt of court was upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 3) escaped from serving his sentence of 60 days in prison. In New York politics his conviction for having criticized a judge conducting a hearing on a local traction company, was an emblem of martyrdom. The case was taken to President Coolidge, Republicans urging executive pardon to prevent Mr. Craig (a Democrat) from posing further as a martyr...
Opinions. Expressions of displeasure with the Supreme Court's decision came from every state. Hiram Johnson called it "an outrage." Senator Borah stated that the power of the court to punish for contempt has been abused of late. Amos Pinchot, brother of the Governor of Pennsylvania, challenged Judge Mayer to send him to jail. Senator Copeland of New York went to the White House, making intercession for Craig. Arthur Brisbane (Hearst editor) said Judge Mayer did not know America was a Republic. Representative Oldfield of Arkansas, the Democratic whip, said: "The country is not safe." Mrs. Craig made plans...
...attitude of the Supreme Court in a decision written by Mr. Taft was: "But the law gives the person convicted of contempt in such a case the right to have the whole question on facts and law reviewed by three Judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals who have had no part in t>ie proceedings, and, if not successful in that court, to apply to this court for an opportunity for a similar review here...
Most college men regard the realm of the psychic only as an inexhaustible mine of rather interesting stories, and a "medium" as a species of charlatan earning a living by making giggling girls jump. In view of this wide-spread "he-man" contempt of such stories "authorized by a grandam", it is surprising that Professor MacDougall received as many as six hundred replies out of the fifteen hundred questionnaires which he sent forth...