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Clarence & the Qualunquists. Most Italians admired the U.S., but one of its best-loved characters, Clarence Day Sr., incited them to condescending contempt. Life with Father, declared Italian critics, was "superficial, infantile, naive . . . adequate for high-school children." First...
...Adams had just got the news: the Supreme Court had decided that his boss, John L. Lewis, was in contempt of court. Mr. Adams and the rest of the U.S. could only try to divine, with or without tea leaves, what would happen next...
...courts. Goldsborough ordered him. not to call the strike. Lewis called the strike anyhow, arguing that the Norris-LaGuardia Act took away the court's authority to enjoin workers in a labor dispute. Obediently his miners, nearly 600,000 of them, walked out. Goldsborough convicted him of contempt and the case went to the Supreme Court...
...Interests of Government. A court which is not noted for its unanimity of opinion followed a fairly clear line on the main question of Lewis' guilt. Justice Wiley Rutledge dissented. He belabored Goldsborough for his failure to draw a clear line between civil and criminal contempt-on both of which counts Goldsborough had held Lewis culpable. "No case in this Court heretofore has ever sustained such conglomerate proceedings and penalties," Rutledge wrote. He and Justice Murphy both thought that Goldsborough should be reversed...
...Thrust. The Court might have confined itself to the question of contempt, plastered Lewis with the fine and let it go at that. But not this Court. Boldly, Chief Justice Vinson struck out into the jungle country of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The case did raise the question of whether the Act can be applied when the Government is the employer. In other words, can workers under Government authority keep the right to strike? Lewis' miners were technically working for the Government when they struck...