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...newsmen regarded with wonder the action of a Canadian Court of Assizes in authorizing contempt proceedings against the Toronto Star for publishing an interview with Sergeant John Leopold, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who testified against Communists on trial. Said the court: "Newspapers have no business publishing an interview of things that were given outside the witness box while this trial is proceeding...
...intention to try to minimize the value of the Crusaders, but at the name time it is hard not to feel distrust for a movement which is so collegiate in the worst sense of the word. It is not adult to hold politics in such contempt; it is not adult to appeal through popular names on the letter-head and cheap publicity; it is not adult to start out with a bang and to accomplish nothing. Until the Crusaders sober down there are may better ways to dispose of a dollar, this year of all years. J. B. Jackson...
...Judge Wilkerson was less severe than he might have been, he was running no risk of ambiguity. Patiently he explained : that Snorkey's sentence of six months for contempt of court, which he has not yet served, might run concurrently with the felony sentences, so that Snorkey would not have to serve more than eleven years; but, in case a higher court overruled his sentence on the three felony counts, thereby cutting ten years from the sentences, the two misdemeanor sentences and the sentence for contempt must be served consecutively. Thus Judge Wilkerson made as sure as possible that...
...same charge that Representative Tinkham had made last year; but Bishop Cannon had defied the Caraway Lobby Investigating Committee and walked out (TIME, June 16, 1930). Miss Burroughs had obdurately refused to testify before the Nye Senate Campaign Funds Committee which then threatened to cite her for contempt. Last week's charges, the ten counts of which could provide an aggregate of ten years in jail and $21,000 in fines, were made by the District of Columbia Grand Jury, which under District Attorney Leo Rover took over the evidence collected by the Nye Committee...
Said President Holt: "A man can be a mucker [on the gridiron and diamond] and still get applause. The same tactics in the duck blind or on the quail field will bring him the contempt of his companions. Taking an average, I have found more outdoorsmen whom I admired than I have athletes...