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Tammany on the Telephone-The legislative committee cited Dr. Doyle for contempt. A Supreme Court Justice sentenced him to 30 days in jail. Then Dr. Doyle's smart young lawyers began appealing to higher and higher courts, occasionally winking at the rules of strict legal ethics. Counsel Seabury thought he had a gentleman's agreement with Doyle's counsel whereby he would be given notice when the case was to be taken before an Appellate judge. He was mistaken. Late one evening, one of Doyle's lawyers raced to Lake Placid, got an uncontested stay from Justice Henry L. Sherman...
Because your reference to a Porto Rican burglar [TIME, July 6] reveals a spirit of contempt for Porto Ricans in general, I do not feel it rude on my part to reveal the following: Porto Rico has for long learned to associate American bankers with criminals and would have rejoiced at seeing them handcuffed to Porto Rican burglars long before this...
Anything but contempt has TIME for Porto Ricans, but it finds them proud, sensitive...
...Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament...
...OnIy Canadian ever confined to the Tower was R. C. Miller, no Government official but onetime president of Diamond Light & Heating Co. Ltd. He was condemned for contempt of Parliament...