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Defiant to the end, Maddox strapped a snub-nosed pistol to his side, rushed up to the door when Negroes appeared. When a U.S. district court ordered him to show cause why he should not be cited for contempt, Maddox caved in and closed the Pickrick. "The President, the Congress and the Communists have closed my business and ended my childhood dream," he said. "Not me. They...
...Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli is no admirer of the American Bar Association to which he belongs, or of its president, Walter E. Craig. Self-styled defender of unpopular causes, Belli has voluble and repetitive contempt for lawyers who prefer corporate problems to trial work, and as he sees it, Craig exemplifies the prosperous defenders of vested interests...
Parker warned Wellman that any future comments in that vein would be taken as contempt of court. Thereafter, Wellman put forward the same question to each prosecution witness, but said nothing when Parker excluded...
...sometimes $100 is paid for a $9.60 ticket. The annual take in ice has been estimated at more than $10 million. Among major icemen, box office employees have always had the longest tongs, which goes a long way toward explaining why they have always behaved with such freezing contempt toward the wretched public that lines up to buy ice-free tickets at the wicket. Brokers testified that they regularly delivered envelopes to box offices containing checks covering the list price of tickets plus agreed amounts of extra cash, usually about $5 to $7 for an orchestra seat...
...Reaching Honolulu, Madalyn faced a few unpleasant surprises. Buddhists, who do not like to think of themselves as atheists, constitute only about one-third of the island's population. The majority of the rest of Hawaiians are Catholic. And back home in Baltimore, a judge added two more contempt-of-court citations to the charges, arising out of the police melee, that a grand jury returned. Mrs. Murray may never have to face the music. Although she is legally subject to extradition, Baltimore seldom tries to recapture defendants on the lam except for serious crimes, and the state...