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...pensioneer went to trial. A onetime aide testified that Dr. Townsend and his O.A.R.P. directors had planned the walkout two weeks before it happened, considering it a "masterpiece of strategy" which would win much sympathy for the Plan. Dr. Townsend denied this. The jury found him guilty of contempt of the House, penalty for which is $100 to $1,000 fine, one to twelve months in jail, or both. Thus assured of a brief twilight in the public eye, the onetime oldsters' Messiah complacently observed: "This publicity will accelerate my Movement...
...courtroom with a broken tooth. Three officers were required to hold the outraged husband while others dragged away his screaming, kicking, scratching wife. Terry tore loose, dashed after his wife with bowie knife drawn. After both Terrys were disarmed, Justice Field had them carted off to jail for contempt of court. "When I get out of jail," David Terry was reported to have sworn, "I shall horsewhip Judge Field. If he resents it, I'll kill him." Later, under friends' urging, he modified the threat, declaring: "I do not intend to injure Field bodily, but if the opportunity...
...with the necessity of risking his title for the first time since he won it two years ago, much preferred to risk it against Joe Louis, with whom he could draw a $1,000,000 gate, than against Schmeling, with whom he, might draw $200,000. Last week, in contempt of his contract with Madison Square Garden as well as of every principle of good sportsmanship, Champion Braddock signed a contract, approved by the Illinois State Athletic Commission, to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago's Comiskey Park on June 22. Madison Square Garden threatened it would...
With a soldier's contempt for the feelings of the Anarchist, Communist and assorted Marxist adherents of the Valencia Cabinet of Premier Largo Caballero in Spain last week, White Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his radiorating General Queipo de Llano appoint as Military Governor of Málaga, just captured from the Reds (TIME. Feb. 15), a soldierly Bourbon, the middle-aged Duke of Seville, onetime Colonel in the Spanish Infantry of King Alfonso XIII...
...Governor Murphy's request, 250-lb. Sheriff Wolcott had made no move to enforce Judge Gadola's injunction. After three days a G. M. superintendent went to the judge, got a writ ordering arrest of the sit-downers and of 15 union officials, including Homer Martin, for contempt of court. To Detroit went word that Sheriff Wolcott was preparing to lead an army of Flint policemen, deputies, American Legionaries, sheriffs and General Motors police to serve the writ. Few hours after President Roosevelt sent to Congress his message on judicial reorganization (see p. 16), the supremacy of Executive...