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...they were flogged with ropes and left bound & bleeding. Neither victim was again heard of. Haled before District Judge Grover Adams to tell the source of his story, Reporter Barr would say only: "I can't betray a confidence." He was fined $100 and went to jail for contempt of court. Telegrams of congratulation, letters, gifts of cigarets, books and magazines poured into his cell. Reporter Barr's lawyer finally persuaded him that his information was not legally "privileged," that he might be kept behind bars indefinitely until he would speak. Then Reporter Barr named his informant-Norman...
...House last week Scot MacDonald interrupted a bickering debate with this cry of despair: "What is the use! What is the use of members watching the clock go round and getting up to indulge in talk, talk, talk? It is bringing this House into contempt-this listless, lifeless talk, talk, talk...
Whereupon Judge Paul W. Guilford held Pastor Swenson in contempt of court, sentenced him to 30 days in jail or to pay $100 fine...
Judge Lyle, chastened, went back to his bench. Gangster Capone, happy, went into Federal Court to answer contempt charges (see p. 12). Mayor Thompson, exhausted, went to a Michigan sanatorium to build up strength for the campaign against Nominee Cermak which ends with the election April...
...grateful letter of thanks, H. R. H. absolved the Church of England or "High Church" from any stigma of having criticized him, referred with withering contempt to the "torrent of abuse [heaped] upon me not only by the Press, but by the Low Church and especially the Non-conformists...