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...Thirdly, Mussolini has, and gives the impression of having, a complete contempt for material rewards, money, comfort. . . . Mussolini comes from poverty, preaches poverty, and remains poor. Yes; his devotion to Italy, and only Italy, is as unmistakable as it is absolute. . . . There must be no personal loyalties, no promises, no doctrinal consistency, nor anything else that conflicts with the destiny of a greater Italy. There are some men who cannot desert the friends of yesterday for the sake of their country. Mussolini is not one of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dux | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...sincere and constructive criticism of the government department would be greatly appreciated by Professor Holcombe and his entire staff. A malicious, untruthful and ignorant attack such as the one by Alan Frazer in the American will be read and remembered with a contempt due the author and the publisher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEARSTIAN: | 10/23/1935 | See Source »

...some 21 times. Public Service fought back by charging him with malicious mischief, making him serve a six-month jail sentence in 1931. After that the company got an injunction to keep Crempa from tampering its wires. When he continued his short-circuiting pranks, the court cited him for contempt, ordered seizure of the body of John Crempa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crempas | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...addition to his contempt order he had two new warrants, one calling for the arrest of John Crempa for malicious mischief, another for Mrs. Crempa's arrest on charges of assaulting sheriff's officers (during the surveying party ruckus). It was easy to pick up John Crempa's son on a contempt charge last week at the riding academy. The next afternoon the sheriff sent eight deputies to seize the bodies of John and Sophie Crempa. As usual the Crempa grounds were deserted, the house looked vacant, the blinds were down. The posse's commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crempas | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...anything else. Then he sat back to wait for the police. The police never arrived because the Legislature had already moved to repeal the offending antisedition bill. It had, furthermore, put through a bill drafted by Editor Hall and sponsored by Dothan's Representative, exempting newspaper men from contempt of court sentences when they refuse to reveal news sources in judicial investigations. Several States have similar laws in behalf of the Press. Last week Governor Graves, far from sending police for nervy Editor Hall, looked about for some way of showing Young Julian his admiration and affection, gladly signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Front Page Revolution | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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