Word: contempts
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...screamed: "The bankers produce a financial crisis and then manipulate that crisis for their own further financial gain. . . . They then hypocritically cry for reduction in taxes and hence for reductions in wages." Cried President Henry Richardson Linville: "We can easily believe that a great banker may develop a supreme contempt for education, while with one hand he compels the legislature of the Empire State to reduce the salaries of teachers, and with the other . . . avoids the charges of Federal income tax laws." On and on it went...
...bribery but for contempt of court Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was sentenced to 30 days, of which he served ten, in jail at Oxford. He had refused to testify in a $100,000 seduction suit brought by a Capital stenographer against his good friend Governor Lee Maurice Russell...
...little love lost between the Irish and the English, between the Scots and their Sassenach cousins there is a friendlier feeling. The English regard the Scots with mixed admiration as a nation of sturdy but unconsciously humorous characters; the Scots view the English with more or less kindly contempt. Scottish Author Macdonell, at home on both sides of the Tweed, has written the kind of hilarious, good-natured (i.e. flattering) satire on England which Englishmen love. U. S. readers may enjoy it too, unless they have Irish blood in them, in which case they may be annoyed...
...Berle shows that business men, as a class have had this noble ability and initiative in the past; that there has been a day when a bank director who enriched himself while serving with a bank was looked on by the depositors with the contempt with which the intelligent public now regards a mayor who has reaped similar benefits in office. America should obviously have some prize in its patronage kit, wholly non-political in its nature, to give to a business leader who leads in business, not in income-tax returns. A college degree to such a noble fellow...
...income tax lien with Sherwood through the latter's attorney but did not know where Sherwood was. Would Collector Duggan "play ball" with the American? He would. A rendezvous with Sherwood and his lawyers was arranged in a Hoboken saloon, where Sherwood was safe from a New York contempt-of-court citation (and $50,000 fine). Next morning the American burst out with the neatest, most spectacular scoop that Manhattan had seen in a long time...