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...Senate committee investigating the Department of Justice suspected that alleged graft by the "Ohio Gang" had-been deposited in the Midland National. When Senators Wheeler and Brookhart went to Washington Courthouse to inspect its records, Mai Daugherty defiantly refused them access to his bank. He was cited for contempt of the Senate. The Supreme Court upheld the citation long after the Daugherty issue had passed into history. Hence the case against him was dropped...
...Hills naval oil reserve leases as fraudulent, convicted Albert Bacon Fall of taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward Laurence Doheny. Important witnesses became fugitives in Europe. He failed to convict Doheny or Harry Ford Sinclair of conspiracy, though he did send Sinclair to jail for contempt of court. He was a harddriving, hard-working prosecutor who dug up new evidence in the oil scandals and integrated it to convince the public, if not District of Columbia juries, of gross wrongdoing...
...eleventh year of shouting through walrus-like whiskers the contempt he feels for Poland's Parliament and Poland's politicians,* Marshal Josef Pilsudski took a drastic step last week, told President Ignatz† Mosciki of Poland to call to the Prime Ministry Judge Jan Pilsudski. Promptly the President did as he was told...
After reviewing the performance of the medium. Besterman concluded: "To put forward such a book as this as a serious contribution to psychical research . . . with such claims of infallibility ... is to bring our subject into contempt and disrepute...
...Women refuse to have their nationality held any longer in contempt!" cried Manhattan's feministic Miss Doris Stevens. "Nationality determines allegiance. It is considered of such supreme importance that men are asked to give their lives in its defense. Yet of so little importance is the allegiance of women that it exists only as an indirect relation determined by the nationality of her husband or father. Women will not much longer stand for this...