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...elevation of Major Peyton Gordon, U. S. Attorney who has twice convicted Sinclair-for contempt of the Senate and for jury-tampering in contempt of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia-to the bench of the latter Court, by President Coolidge...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...
...back into his chair humiliated. The judge gazed out the window again, then made a long speech in a low voice. ". . . That he [Father Burns] knew of this surveillance I cannot doubt, and that he knew it from the time it began." The judge concluded: ". . . You are guilty of contempt of court. . . . Men of high character sometimes make mistakes. Your sentence is fifteen days in the Washington jail or asylum...
...that Natalie and Tony, both out of place in Berkenmeer society, should become illicit lovers. One day, Tony took her away. He obtained money from Berkenmeer boosters, hostile to Gortion, to form an aviation company. Natalie and he went barnstorming at county fairs, grabbing quick lunches, flying recklessly, with contempt for gaping yokels. Later, Sayles joined them, added wing-walking and parachute-jumping to their bill of feats. Sayles, lonely, asked an institutional woman named Adrienne to join the troupe as his wife; she told him that he was too insane to marry anyone. He brooded; committed suicide...
...have dealt with Miss Mullen will ever forget her--her wavy gray hair, her keen eyes, her sharp outspokenness, her unconcealed contempt of all that is slovenly and inaccurate, her passion for work perfectly done, her boundless delight in flowers, her merciless insight, her royally generous and merciful heart...