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...Aluminum Company of America has been guilty of contempt of court. In the rugged, trust busting days of 1912, a United States district court ordered the company to cease monopolistic practices. In 1924, the Federal Trade Commission brought in a report which cited well-founded evidence to prove the Aluminum trust had violated the court order in 1922. But the Statute of Limitations, which provides that contempt proceedings can not be instituted more than a year after the violation of the court decree, nullified the work of the Commission. So the Department of Justice was forced to continue the investigation...
...Platon much as that prelate had previously ousted Kedrovsky. Thereupon Platon's adherents produced whatever axes they had to grind, attacked by night, chopped their way into Bishop Adam's residence, reinstated their leader (TIME, Aug. 10). Justice Levy of Manhattan threw Bishop Adam into jail for contempt of court...
...unit it is altogether merry and kind and mildly sophisticated, with a great joy in being Yale men and a profound contempt for any comic or unworthy trading on the name it bears...
Last week the Court Martial (TIME, Nov. 2, 9) trying Colonel William Mitchell for contempt of his superiors calculated to destroy discipline, got almost nowhere. Colonel Mitchell's counsel asked for 70 odd witnesses. According to Army rules both prosecution and defense have the privilege of examining witnesses before they take the stand. That took some time, and the Court was obliged to recess for several days...
...some time. Few people realize or are willing to contemplate the fact that eleven years of devastating was and disintegrating peace have undermined the moral foundations of many densely populated areas of the world, and that there is more faith in the efficacy of force -- accompanied by a growing contempt for law--as a solution for international differences than there has been since the days of Napoleon. The forces of disintegration, unless soon checked, may ultimately overpower the forces of reconstruction, due primarily, I believe, to the shortsighted policy of the present managers of European political affairs...