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...Court left undecided a number of important cases, including the charge of contempt of the Senate against Mal S. Daugherty, brother of the former Attorney General (for refusing to produce his bank records) ; the "Oregon postmaster case," which rests on a question never yet determined: whether the President has power to dismiss an official whom he appointed with the consent of the Senate...
...have no respect for law, merely as law. It is the duty of every citizen to show his contempt, so far as is convenient and seemly, for any laws that seem to him contemptible. . . . I would have my grandson study Rabelais, Montaigne, Ben Franklin and Li Tai Po, rather than William Jennings Bryan...
Just now no athletic organization of minor importance is working quite so hard as the lacrosse team under a young and enthusiastic coach to live down ten years of universal contempt. On last Saturday it suddenly was brought to public attention by robbing Princeton of its annual victory, as the newspaper headlines so ironically...
...Court," went to the New York Supreme Court, which summoned the Senecas. The proud red men refused to appear in the "alien" court. Two of them-Sylvester J. Pierce, administrator of the disputed estate, and Warren Kennedy, marshal of the red men's court-were taken prisoners for contempt. Their attorney, George P. Decker of Rochester, carried the case to Washington, where it became public last week. The red men contend that the patches of Seneca land, totaling 50,000 acres, constitute an independent sovereignty. They base their bold thought not only upon immemorial residence but also upon...
Your action therefore in inviting Bishop Brown to officiate in your parish is in open contempt arid defiance of the authority and law of the Church of which you are a minister . . . and I hereby admonish you that if you proceed in defiance of the inhibition of the Bishop of the Diocese such action upon your part will be in direct violation of the constitution and canons of the Church, and will be regarded as conduct unbecoming a clergyman under the terms of Canon 28 of the General Convention...