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Showdown? Driving ahead against small sit-downs, Detroit Police next marched up to the Newton Packing Co. plant, called on the sitters to come out. To Sheriff Wilcox chagrin they promptly dropped their weapons, sheepishly filed out to be arrested for contempt of court. Some 100 women sitters in the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Corp. factory gave the officers more trouble, kicked, squealed, squirmed as they were driven out. When watching sympathizers began to pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back...
...been under-assessed. In October, another camera was destroyed. This time it belonged to the Star, and the Journal's Editor Sevellon Brown was accused of breaking it. When a judge released Mr. Brown, the Star let loose a journalistic catcall at the decision, was promptly held in contempt of court by the incensed jurist...
Having once erred by broadly criticizing most anything in an interview, Fuller's remarks in regard to Harvard were cautiously guarded. However, for the new movements the "Roosevelt for King Club" and the course in marriage, he held only contempt. "Stupid", was his only comment...
Sentenced. Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan'') Townsend, 69, to 30 days in jail, $100 fine; for contempt of the U. S. House (TIME, June 8); in Washington's Federal District Court; in Washington. Appealing the sentence, the old pensioner cried: "My crackpot idea . . . will save America from economic serfdom...
...MASK is OFF ! . . .-The President's speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...