Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having once erred by broadly criticizing most anything in an interview, Fuller's remarks in regard to Harvard were cautiously guarded. However, for the new movements the "Roosevelt for King Club" and the course in marriage, he held only contempt. "Stupid", was his only comment...
Sentenced. Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan'') Townsend, 69, to 30 days in jail, $100 fine; for contempt of the U. S. House (TIME, June 8); in Washington's Federal District Court; in Washington. Appealing the sentence, the old pensioner cried: "My crackpot idea . . . will save America from economic serfdom...
...MASK is OFF ! . . .-The President's speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
...pensioneer went to trial. A onetime aide testified that Dr. Townsend and his O.A.R.P. directors had planned the walkout two weeks before it happened, considering it a "masterpiece of strategy" which would win much sympathy for the Plan. Dr. Townsend denied this. The jury found him guilty of contempt of the House, penalty for which is $100 to $1,000 fine, one to twelve months in jail, or both. Thus assured of a brief twilight in the public eye, the onetime oldsters' Messiah complacently observed: "This publicity will accelerate my Movement...
...with the necessity of risking his title for the first time since he won it two years ago, much preferred to risk it against Joe Louis, with whom he could draw a $1,000,000 gate, than against Schmeling, with whom he, might draw $200,000. Last week, in contempt of his contract with Madison Square Garden as well as of every principle of good sportsmanship, Champion Braddock signed a contract, approved by the Illinois State Athletic Commission, to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago's Comiskey Park on June 22. Madison Square Garden threatened it would...