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Derby's Canon Francis J. Edmond agreed that burial requests are sometimes blasphemous: "One man left instructions that his body should be burned and his ashes scattered over his potato patch. That man was really trying to show his contempt for his own body...
...personal favor if you vote for this." His difficulties are immense. The White House has been taking on more & more power for a decade. Sam Rayburn's job is to translate into Congressional action the will of a President who has frequently regarded Congress with cheerful contempt...
Fortnight ago a persistent deputy marshal began stalking the Military Governor with a summons. Finally, after five days of hare-&-hounds, jaunty Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr. accepted service. When he failed to show up in Judge Metzger's court, he was fined $5,000 for contempt (ignoring the writ...
...curt order: hereafter anyone who applies for, issues, serves, or accepts a plea for a writ of habeas corpus will be subject to a $5,000 fine, five years in jail, or both. This "anyone" obviously meant only one man: Judge Metzger, who was also warned to drop the contempt case forthwith...
...colleagues have sopped up this contempt. Said one of his officers, when asked what errors the Germans made at Stalingrad: "The greatest error was in having Hitler for a strategist...