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Only One Outrage. As for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, said its Secretary Henry Allen Moe, "the most outrageous mistake of all" was a 1935 grant to Scenarist Alvah Bessie, who later became one of the Hollywood Ten jailed for contempt of Congress. But except for Bessie and two or three others, said Moe, the foundation had done well: like its sister organizations, it had never knowingly subsidized a subversive, and it never would...
...working on the case. One of them, "Speck" O'Keefe, an efficient hold-up man, was among the first batch of police record holders taken into custody in 1950, questioned and released. When O'Keefe indicated he had little to tell the grand jury, the judge cited him for contempt; another witness, a Boston bookie, received 18 months in jail on the same change, and three others were similarly charged. All are contesting...
...United Brewery Workers organizer. His father, German-born Valentine Reuther, imbued Walter and his three brothers with the class-conscious doctrines of German Social Democracy. As late as the mid-thirties, Walter Reuther was still a professed Socialist. His "Reuther plan" may spring from an old Socialist's contempt for the American tradition of "pure & simple" trades unionism...
...months of the year. In the mufti season, however, he still dispenses cheer as a wandering bartender. "It's like being a Santa too long in the same place," he said. "People get so they hate the sight of you. You know what they say about familiarity breeding contempt? Well, after a while they get contempt for me and I get contempt for them, so I keep moving...
...months London's sensational Sunday press and gossipmongers in Britain have been feeding a smoldering resentment on the part of Britons against the 35,000-odd U.S. airmen now stationed in their country. The age-old criticisms of the visiting American-brash boastfulness, too free spending, a careless contempt for local manners & morals-have been heard again on every side. Chief source of irritation: loose behavior of a few airmen and the hordes of British prostitutes who pursue them in every liberty city...