Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock this afternoon, the Thayer Hall South-Entry All-Stars will make good their title of "The Greatest Team Since the Brooklyn Dodgers," against a team picked from this year's 2nd Freshman nine. To show their contempt for their opponents, the All-Stars will appear in nightshirts and with a neutral umpire, Edmund J. Deering '40. Both teams will report for batting practice on Dillon Field at 2 o'clock sharp...
...expanded and extended its control of the market, establishing Aluminum Ltd. of Canada "to prevent competition from abroad." The consent decree of 1912 was still in effect, returned Alcoa counsel, and there was not one charge in the Manhattan suit which if proved would not render the company in contempt of the Pittsburgh court. Even so, pursued Attorney Jackson, he and his associates could be sued only as agents of the Government and, as everyone knew, the Government could not be sued without its consent. "We can't show you a case where an Attorney General has ever been...
...great Green Case was adjourned for two weeks, two lawyers stood chatting in a smoke-filled anteroom with plump Surrogate Owen. Subject of the conversation was Mrs. Wilks's "day in court." Said the Surrogate: "The thing I was worried about was: If I cited her for contempt of court how would I get her up to Port Henry for a hearing? I was afraid I might have to take her my self...
...grand jury proceedings. Barked he: "There has been too much trying of lawsuits in newspapers instead of courts, particularly in criminal cases." Immediately the Scripps-Howard Times-Press published names of jurors and witnesses, listed titles of cases to be heard by a newly-summoned panel. Cited for contempt of court, chunky, mustached Editor Walter Morrow was last week fined $50. Between Judge Wanamaker and Editor Morrow there was no feud, but an understanding that the case would be appealed immediately to make the spirit & letter of the law jibe once...
...returned to the courtroom when the verdict was brought in long enough to repeat Samuel Insull's lines: "I never in my life did anything wrong." Following a revealing investigation into the Zintak jury's joyride Judge Benjamin P. Epstein last week held the entire panel in contempt of court. Five jurors who drank & danced were sentenced to serve five days in jail. Six who drank but did not dance received three-day sentences. A 37-year-old telephone mechanic named Leo Fahey, who merely watched, was fined...