Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom with a broken tooth. Three officers were required to hold the outraged husband while others dragged away his screaming, kicking, scratching wife. Terry tore loose, dashed after his wife with bowie knife drawn. After both Terrys were disarmed, Justice Field had them carted off to jail for contempt of court. "When I get out of jail," David Terry was reported to have sworn, "I shall horsewhip Judge Field. If he resents it, I'll kill him." Later, under friends' urging, he modified the threat, declaring: "I do not intend to injure Field bodily, but if the opportunity...
With a soldier's contempt for the feelings of the Anarchist, Communist and assorted Marxist adherents of the Valencia Cabinet of Premier Largo Caballero in Spain last week, White Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his radiorating General Queipo de Llano appoint as Military Governor of Málaga, just captured from the Reds (TIME. Feb. 15), a soldierly Bourbon, the middle-aged Duke of Seville, onetime Colonel in the Spanish Infantry of King Alfonso XIII...
...Governor Murphy's request, 250-lb. Sheriff Wolcott had made no move to enforce Judge Gadola's injunction. After three days a G. M. superintendent went to the judge, got a writ ordering arrest of the sit-downers and of 15 union officials, including Homer Martin, for contempt of court. To Detroit went word that Sheriff Wolcott was preparing to lead an army of Flint policemen, deputies, American Legionaries, sheriffs and General Motors police to serve the writ. Few hours after President Roosevelt sent to Congress his message on judicial reorganization (see p. 16), the supremacy of Executive...
Lately cited for contempt of court for failing to pay his wife back alimony, Edward J. Reilly, chief defense lawyer for Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, was committed to the Brooklyn State Hospital for the Insane on petition of his mother...
Attorney he had acquired a passionate hatred of and contempt for racketeers. The chance to fight them was too good to miss. Big-Game Hunt-Prosecutor Dewey made one thing plain at the outset. His investigation was going to be unlike any other in the city's history. He was not going to head one more futile roundup of criminal small fry-petty thugs, prostitutes, gamblers and crooked policemen. He was out, he announced, to get the bosses. For his big-game hunt, Special Prosecutor Dewey sought a staff of assistants, young, fervent, able, fearless. He found his chief...