Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large brick "common jail," on the banks of the Anacostia in Washington must go Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for three months. The U. S. Supreme Count so ruled last week. His crime was contempt of the Senate...
...contempt of sentimental gushings and impassioned pleas for bigger and better foreign relations, the solid economic and political significance of tolerance and understanding are too often underestimated. On this latter ground the fanfare of student voyages, international Schools, and even the schoolboy correspondence in French, find a justification. Meanwhile the position occupied by Harvard in foreign eyes, offers to a much greater degree the opportunity for utilizing such contact. With this in mind the University should take a certain pride in playing a part, even if subordinate to the local Rotary Club...
Unable to pay a judgment assessed by a London court, last week, Reception Clerk Barker submitted quietly to arrest for "contempt of court," and was driven in a patrol wagon to Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain...
...absorbing tale that takes Mr. Grove from his first job as a waiter's assistant in a cheap restaurant through the cities, factories, and harvest fields of a large section of America. His bitterness in his futile early search for Abraham Lincoln and his contempt for the type of American he does find give way finally to a rational appreciation and clear vision of America...
...first he said: "I never had anything to do with the distribution of any bonds [of the Continental Trading Co.] . . . I don't know anything about it." Later he said: "I know about the disposition of $759,500 of these bonds." The Senate charged Col. Stewart with perjury and contempt. He was acquitted of both charges, in jury trials last year...