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...court a petition that Henry Morris Lull, executive vice president of the road, George Stewart Waid, general manager, and John Givens Torain, assistant to Mr. Waid, had violated the provisions of the injunction and therefore should be sent to jail until they purged themselves of contempt. The Brotherhood alleged these S. P. officials had failed to dissolve the company union and to cease interference with brotherhood affairs, as Judge Hutcheson had ordered. Filed last February, this petition, by joint agreement, was held in abeyance until the Supreme Court should rule on the validity of the injunction. Fortified by last week...
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Free Speech. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Record engaged the law firm headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, onetime U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, to defend it against contempt of court charges. Record editorials and cartoons had smitten the grand jury and prosecutor in an investigation of alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...
...charge had been made with polite, scathing contempt by no less a personage than J. B. S. Haldane, famed Cambridge biochemist (TIME, March 29, 1926). In reviewing the Earl's latest best seller, The World in 2030, Mr. Haldane observed that a sort of mental telepathy must exist between his common head and the belted Earl's, since he recognized in no less than 44 passages ideas similar to the ones he had expressed in his essay of scientific prophecy Daedalus...
...this moribund organization, revived it, resigned abruptly because of its opposition to strikes. In 1893 he developed his "one big union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor Berger...