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Elihu Root in his first famous case nearly went to jail for contempt of court. He and two other lawyers were in a suit, people against Boss Tweed. The suit was brought before Noah Davis. The lawyers objected to the Judge because he owed his position to Tweed, the man whom he was trying. Judge Davis pronounced Root and the two others guilty of contempt. The two others were fined, but Root was "let off because he was so young...
There is no more striking illustration of the altering effect of circumstance than the question of forgery. In the world of finance the perpetrator goes to jail; in the world of letters he is received, when discovered, with applause. Chatterton, at the age of fifteen, fooled Horace Walpole completely, and has been hailed by subsequent generations as a genius. There is a modern case which is still being fought out. Although the dispute as to whether Daisy Ashford or Sir James Barrie wrote the "Young Visiters" was allowed for a time to slip into a state of lethargy, the authorship...
...supposedly benevolent nature, we are rather startled at subject of a prize competition just announced by the Cosmopolis Press of New York. This organization will give a thousand dollars for the best play, motion picture scenario or short story adaptable into a play or scenario "on the American jail as a force in the creation of criminals and the fostering of crime" The judges of the contest will include Ludwig Lewisohn,-author and an editor of the Nation; Minnie Madern Fiske, well known actress; Carl Van Doren, literary editor of the Century Magazine; Dean George W. Kirkway, formerly of Columbia...
...first paragraph is Untermyer; the second, Steuer; the third, Buzfuz. Fortunately, in this case no matter how innocent either party may be, he will not go to jail like the poor Mr. Pickwick, found with his buxom landlady, widow Bardell, in his arms...
...What Congress will not do, the states have done in their anarchy laws, which penalize free expression. The laws are further re-enforced by the injunction, which in the state of California is sufficient to throw a member of the I. W. W. organization into jail without any defense whatever...