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Thompson said that in some ways he felt that the weekday congregation was more devout and more genuinely religious than the Sunday congregation. One of the reasons, he said, might be that Sunday worship in an organized church has lost some of the mystique of religion. "Familiarity breeds contempt," he explained...
...extraordinarily conservative fiscal policy of the administration and its contempt of students has led the Union to believe that drastic action is required. Whether the Union would strike was not known when this was written. Nevertheless, it is appropriate to consider what has proved the possibility of a strike...
...widely thought to be one of the financial wizards of organized U.S. crime, at last got his comeuppance, or at least some of his comeuppance. On the lam from the IRS since 1970, he was refused Israeli citizenship. Lansky finally returned to Miami to face trial on a criminal contempt charge-for failure to obey a subpoena. Lansky swore that his doctor had declared him too ill to make the long trip home. Nonetheless, the jury found him guilty. Now Lansky faces a charge of income tax evasion and one of skimming the profits off Las Vegas casinos, both with...
Court of Common Pleas Judge D. Donald Jamieson issued an injunction to end the walkout. When the teachers ignored him, the confrontation got rougher. Some 317 teachers were arrested for picketing and will be arraigned for trial next week. Union Negotiators Frank Sullivan and John Ryan were jailed for contempt but were permitted to emerge each morning to continue negotiations, then returned behind bars at night. Teachers who continued to work (about 3,500 of the 13,000) suffered tire slashings and other harassment...
...Contempt of court is the one offense in U.S. law for which a person may be jailed simply on the order of a judge. When a person refuses to do what a judge lawfully tells him to do, he can be held in civil contempt and locked up. The theory is that he holds the key to his own release; the minute he convinces the judge that he will obey, he has purged his contempt and will be freed. By the same token, if he never obeys he never gets...