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...fight against the totalitarians of those days, in close contact with the men who today lure, mislead and enslave--through petitions, manifests and "coups," in a calculated and skillful progressions--the millions of human beings who too easily forget that God created them as individuals, make me look with contempt upon that kind of propaganda...
Bogotá's Liberals were incensed; in their partisan zeal, they jumped on the Liberator himself. Wrote German Arciniegas, historian and essayist, in El Tiempo: "Bolívar never believed in democracy, and . . . his contempt for the law and confidence in dictatorship overflowed . . . His formula was dictatorship backed by the army and the archbishops...
...Profound Contempt." When the U.S. entered World War I, Wood signed up, sailed with the Rainbow Division under Douglas MacArthur, who was chief of staff and is still a close friend. Before long, Wood was ordered from France to Washington as acting quartermaster general, and promoted to brigadier general. In a short time, he reorganized the chaotic Army procurement. At war's end, Julius Thorne, a Wood aide who in civilian life was president of Montgomery Ward, took the general back there with...
...mail-order houses lay in expanding into the retail field. But Ward's management couldn't see it. "[They] regarded the retail outlets as funnels through which to drop the lemons from the mail-order inventory," Wood says. "I'm afraid I developed a profound contempt for [them]." Apparently, the contempt was mutual. In 1924, Wood was fired...
...days last week, Gambler Frank Costello, 60, sat glumly in a Manhattan courtroom and faced the prospect of a prison term. Charged with contempt of Congress for walking out on the Kefauver crime committee last March, he based his defense on the contentions that i) television hearings are unconstitutional (rejected by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan), and 2) his doctors had warned him of danger to his chronic sore throat (an arrested cancer) if he testified. The doctors were put on the stand. Both said they had told Costello he could testify...