Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were sounds issuing last week from Indiana. With the trial for alleged corruption of the mayor of Indianapolis and Governor Ed Jackson (TIME, Sept. 19), Dr. McBride was doubtless heartily sympathetic. But what could he think and feel about Attorney General Arthur L. Gillon of Indiana ? The latter, not content that the Reverend E. S. Shumaker, State Anti-Saloon superintendent of Indiana, had been sentenced to two months on a penal farm for contempt of court, was last week seeking to extend the Reverend Shumaker's sentence considerably for alleged efforts to cor- rupt the Supreme Court of Indiana...
Novelist Paul Jordan Smith? of Los Angeles never meddled with the brushes of his wife, Sarah Bixby Smith, portrait painter. He liked her work, was content to stick to his pen while she stuck on her pigments...
...foreman of the jury, a jury which has been empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before you the evidence on which our verdict was found, the role of special pleader, being content to follow Darwin's own example-Let the truth speak for itself!" Having congratulated the president upon a masterful pronouncement, British science listened to further addresses...
...this point Nevada stepped in, asking California to be more specific and announcing that, though content with a 2% water allotment, she would insist on a full third of the lower basin power rights. New Mexico spoke, too, telling California that no arbitration board was needed or desired. Arbitration was the purpose of the Denver meeting itself, to keep the whole project out of Federal juris- diction...
...public wake. But Boston hall owners refused to lease their property. Owners of the building in which the Defense Committee had offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets, but the Defense Committee said no, let them lie in their plain laboring-men's Sunday best?black cloth suits, black four-in-hand ties...