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...last year allowed papers subpoenaed by the Senate's airmail investigation to be removed from his files and destroyed. After a hide & seek with the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.) MacCracken was caught, sentenced to ten days in jail for contempt of the Senate. He appealed all the way to the Supreme Court which last week told him that it would not void his sentence...
...photography proved dramatic but, as expected, it made trouble. Attorney General Wilentz, in a lather of righteous fury, demanded that the films be withdrawn "in the name of decency," threatened contempt proceedings. Fox, Hearst Metrotone, Paramount and all Loew's theatres obeyed. Universal and Pathe, after three days, still stood pat. Scooped by the newsreels, the tabloid New York Daily News and Hearst's Journal tried to catch up by splashing still shots from the films over several pages. Genuinely shocked and grieved by what he considered a violation of a gentlemen's agreement, Judge Trenchard ousted...
Best-hated prisoner at Fort Jefferson among the Northern officers in command was Dr. Mudd. Made a hospital orderly, he endured for a few weeks the knowledge of his innocence, of his family's ruin and disgrace, the contempt of his Negro guards. Then he tried to escape. After that he put in twelve hours per day at hard labor under a broiling sun, his legs weighted with heavy irons. The other twelve hours he spent chained hand & foot in a small, solitary dungeon, wet, hot, swarming with mosquitoes and vermin. His legs and arms swelled...
...however, when enthroned with all the power and pomp and prestige that executive authority bestows. ... So effective became his onslaught . . . that I seized upon his perfidious conduct and held it up before high heaven to the scorn and contempt of all good men and women. . . . Beginning in his home town and county I denounced him throughout the entire State as the most conspicuously despicable personifications of ingratitude that ever clouded the horizion of Mississippi politics...
...progress would be deprived of meaning. In the colleges, where both branches of knowledge are harbored, the cleavage should be minimized. Departmental boundaries should represent merely administrative divisions, not irreconcilable units. Yet professors of chemistry still confuse culture with laziness; humanists still regard slide-rules and test-tubes with contempt...