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From Manhattan and London last week came two flagrant examples of contempt for the law of supply & demand, longtime Chapter I of economics textbooks...
Late. In Madison, Wis., when Circuit Judge Robert S. Cowie arrived at work an hour late, he held himself in contempt of court, set a fine...
...published a devastating editorial attack on the Tribune's attitude.This time Friend McCormick did not follow his usual policy of ignoring Times criticism. His answer was a lead editorial titled "These Jackals Grow Too Bold." Calling the Times an inept, tottering pipsqueak sheet, the Tribune turned its contempt on "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria...
Miss Horn's contempt is matched by compassion for the plight of the Filipino people. To them, independence is a "bright bauble, merely a gaudy word filled with vague but glorious implications." It is foisted upon them by politicians who themselves doubt its advisability. Should the Filipinos still want independence in 1946 (when the U. S. is willing to relinquish its sovereignty), the U. S. will kill most of their exports with prohibitive tariffs. Their domestic economy demolished, the Philippines could not hope to escape Japanese control through economic (if not military) conquest...
...something to do with Ezra's origins. His arch account of Pound's advent in England is almost stage-British: "The first of these Conquistadors to arrive . . . brought with him indeed little beyond an immense self-confidence in his own talents, and an equally immense contempt for those of other writers. . . . His name was Ezra Pound. Though born as late as 1885, his birthplace, like that of Homer, is a matter of dispute. ... I have seen Montana mentioned, and also Idaho. The state of Idaho has, I believe, the stronger claim. There is a story . . . that this youngster...