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...TIME, Sept. 11, 1933). Judge Waste and his associates on the Supreme bench last week declared the Lamson new-trial story untrue, cited the Chronicle, Editor Chester Rowell and Managing Editor William D. Chandler for contempt of court. Crowds that flocked to the hearing to see Republican Pundit Rowell squirm in a witness chair were disappointed. The editors were represented by lawyers. Scolded Justice Waste: "It does not look like due diligence was exercised to determine whether the information on the article was true. I am pestered by telephone calls on all important cases. A word to the Chief Justice...
Whether palatable or not for native consumption, it is none the less true that one cannot enjoy the luxury of high tariffs and inflation at home without occasionally experiencing the backwash from their reverberations abroad. Though other countries may squirm under the humiliation of importations from abroad, they at least are in a position to collect when the day of reckoning comes around...
...hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm out of the fashionable crush before President Terra took the rostrum. Their empty seats touched off pinwheels of rumor that "Paraguay has withdrawn from the Conference! She is afraid it will try to stop her war with Bolivia" (TIME, July...
...White-crowned Dr. Peter Ainslie of Baltimore's Christian Temple "would have made a famous cardinal." A stout-hearted warrior for Peace and Church Unity, Virginia-born, he once made a Virginia audience squirm by telling them how, in a Jim Crow car, he asked a Negro woman to sit by him and cried down the other passengers when they sought to have her ousted. ¶ Author Jones asked two Methodists who is their ablest preacher. Both named Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston, Ill., who last spring was hounded as a Communist by a group calling themselves "Paul...
...reason why the battallion of janitors who foregather in the basement of Harvard Hall should not shoulder their rusty keys and throw wide all the gates. The portals that are now life unlocked usually have one gate sadly ajar, making it necessary to wedge one's way in or squirm through surreptiously. The conditions in the Houses are even worse during the regular college year. There are many fine portals that open only once a year to admit the tractor that hauls the wooden board walks. Enough of cloistering. R. A. Briggs...