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...pressed the charge of civil contempt.* Lewis could be jailed or fined on the civil charge at the discretion of the court. Morison noted that 85% of the miners had gone back. His recommendation: the civil penalty should be postponed. This meant that Lewis would still be on the hook. The court could haul him in and fine him at the drop of a miner's pick. Judge Goldsborough thought the suggestion "eminently proper" and adjourned the case...
Facing him was the man who had prepared the Government's case-bouncy, 40-year-old Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison. Early in the week, Morison had persuaded Goldsborough to slap a $1,400,000 fine on Lewis' union and a $20,000 fine on Lewis himself for criminal contempt of court. Shaken by that and the threat of more to come, Lewis had wired his union chiefs: "I do hope [the miners] immediately return to work." To make sure they did, Morison had got an 80-day injunction prohibiting Lewis from ordering another walkout. Now Morison...
Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History, yesterday informed his History 60 students that they would have to wear coats and ties if they wanted to be admitted to his class...
...student who provoked this announcement was without a tie and clad in a navy jacket similar to the one Professor Morison wears in the picture above, taken when he was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy during the recent...
...Morison's edict gave many of his students qualms that he might be suffering from a "noblesse oblige" complex, a hangover from his officer days...