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Words cannot express the contempt with which I read the remarks made by Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith regarding our Commander in Chief in your article "Explosion in the Senate" [TIME...
...towards the climax of the proceedings, Art dropped into an audible snooze. When his horrified co-defendants awoke him he reached for a pencil, drew his classical cartoon of contempt of court (see cut) which he captioned "Art Young on trial for his life." After the case had been dropped, the prosecuting attorney (who had had to admit that "everybody likes Art Young") bid for the picture...
...sentence of $100 fine and three days in jail was rendered by a District Court in Austin, Tex. against Mr. Thomas for contempt of that court's order restraining him from soliciting members in a C.I.O. union in Texas without an organizer's card...
...confidence of his troops by defending them. When the Duke of York's beaten 6,000 who got back to England were ridiculed, Wellington made his first speech in two years: "They were not objects of contempt to the enemies of their country." In his camps in India he read constantly, kept on the move, ate frugally, drank little.* His officers, up at 4:30, drank a cup of tea before daylight, breakfasted in their overcoats on a table before Wellington's tent, and then set out on the day's march, the Duke riding...
...following within the party not likely to be ignored. He will not permit it to be. . . . Republican leaders as a rule don't like Willkie. They never have. They mistrust him as another 'big cock of the roost,' stubbornly bent on having his own way, with contempt for all others whether of high degree or low, if you are not as smart as he is. But what to do about him? . . . Impossible to ignore Willkie; highly dangerous to defy him. For he is dynamite. Like Roosevelt he is glamorous, he is a romantic, dashing figure with...