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...industries business again last week gave London the impression that all they knew and all they are likely to find out is what they had read in the papers while U. S. Senators were sending agents snooping through munitioneers' files, forcing witnesses to testify under oath and threatening contempt proceedings (TIME, Sept...
...Kitty's" supreme contempt, however, is reserved for proponents of the Baconian theory. Once at a Yale dinner he listened to a clever speaker "prove" that Shakespeare's plays could have been written by no one but Sir Francis Bacon. At the end "Kitty" arose, picked up the menu, gravely announced: "Gentlemen, I shall now prove that this menu was written by John Keats...
...granted to Mrs. Eaton the privilege oi visiting her progeny unless she attempted to "instill her atheistic and communistic beliefs" in their minds. Decided the Advisory Master: "She frankly states that she no longer considers herself a Christian She looks on all religion as useless and entertains the deepest contempt for that of her husband...
...chief sourcerer himself expressed disapproval of the measures. None the less, a large portion of the responsibility rests squarely upon his shoulders. Extravagant and wasteful administration spending over a period of years created supreme contempt for balanced budgets, and a non-chalance about a few billions more added to the public debt. Yet last year the President, in one of his few truly statesmenlike messages, rallied the opponents of the bonus raid to his side and preserved enough congressional discipline to sustain his veto. Even then his career was sadly reminiscent of the parable concerning a rake's progress. This...
Harvard could show its contempt for Curleyism in no better way than by the appointment of Dr. Payson Smith to the Graduate School of Education. Even aside from his country-wide reputation as an educator, the story of his banishment from the State House at the instigation of the present Governor of the Commonwealth should be proof enough of the man's worth...