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Loud have been Mr. Brunt's protests against the expansion policy of Container Corp. President Paepcke answered: "It is very easy to comment on the wisdom of our judgment in the light of after events, but it comes with ill grace from one who voted in favor of each acquisition before it was made...
Suddenly, unexpectedly, when the final evidence was in. Judge Wilkerson pronounced judgment, without taking the case under advisement. "The trouble with this whole proceeding," said he, "was that the defendant was trifling with the court. . . . The evidence established beyond all possibility of doubt that during the month of February the respondent was not confined to his bed. . . . The statement made on March 5 that he had been out of bed only ten days was glaringly false." Found guilty of contempt, Capone was sentenced to serve six months in the Cook County jail...
...large degree caused by the professionalism which has become so integral a part of American sport. The average undergraduate spectator is not now dependent on intercollegiate athletes for his sport spectacles. A tremendous growth of professional teams of high excellence has colored the college rooter's judgment of his teams with standards of professional excellence. Together with high prices of admission levied for virtually all intercollegiate contests of importance, this has engendered a feeling that the athletes are in certain measure apart from the rest of the undergraduate body. More than an exhibition of grit and spirit is now expected...
Surely you have the privilege of selecting your correspondence to appear in the Letter column but we did give you credit for not only a more discriminating taste but also better judgment. Has real news reached such a low ebb that you must resort to matters of this kind? NATHALIE M. THOMPKINS Westfield...
...Bonus between the White House and the Capitol was a fast-moving drama of legislation. The President was against it, financially, economically, morally. But that greatest of political bugaboos, the "soldier vote," had stampeded an overwhelming majority of Senators and Representatives toward H. R. 17054, regardless of their private judgment. Fortnight ago the House had rammed the measure through by a 363-to-37 vote. Last week came the Senate's turn to show its disdain of White House opinions...