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...many a fierce floor battle for him and his tax plans. But Congressman Mills, for all his knowledge and dexterity with figures, had a manner that got him into ill favor with his colleagues, antagonized those with whom he had to work. He treated them with intellectual and social contempt, scorned their arguments? a legislative snob. Though his good friend Speaker Longworth declared he had "the best knowledge of national taxation of anyone in either house of Congress" his superciliousness in using that knowledge made him many a good enemy...
While most bridge experts regard each other with ill-concealed contempt, the bridge expert whom others resent the most is Ely Culbertson. A pale young man with rings under his eyes, a slightly bald head, he was educated at the Sorbonne, married a bridge teacher after admiring the way she played a hard hand, now, with her aid, makes $40,000 a year as teacher, author, and editor of the Bridge World. Eight months ago he wrote and published the Contract Bridge Blue Book, advocating a bidding system for contract bridge on which he had worked eight years. Salient point...
...Capone's getting all of the Federal punishment coming to him. Snorkey's attorneys believed that by saving the Government the trouble of a trial they may get their client off with a sentence of three years for both offenses. Still pending is a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9). Capone, now aged 33, hopes that when he leaves prison he will still be a young man, that times will be better, that he can profitably resume business...
Last week the third Federal lash was laid across the porcine back of Chicago's Alphonse Capone. In addition to the six-month sentence he received (and has appealed) for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9), and the indictment for income tax evasion for which he may receive 32 years in prison and a fine of $80.000 (TIME, June 15), he and 68 henchmen were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to violate the national Prohibition laws. The true bill did not mention the various Capone sidelines such as gambling, bordellos, whiskey peddling, specified only the "manufacture...
Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...