Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laura Johnson was born into a family of hard, violent Derbyshire folk who prospered in its lace industry. The women of Laura's family uniformly felt profound contempt for their husbands, and she grew up in a household of six women and an uncle. Her bitter great-grandmother, hearing of her husband's death, tried to cross England in time to slap his dead face before he was buried. Her mother's marriage, writes the daughter, was "an unhappy one," and when her father died soon after Laura's birth, everybody said...
...vote of 271-10-41 cited Dr. Francis E. Townsend-who refused to testify before a House committee investigating his old age pension scheme (TIME, June 1)- for contempt. The House, however, did not choose to make a political martyr of Dr. Townsend and two of his aides cited with him. Instead of trying them itself, the House shunted their case along to the District of Columbia courts...
...whizzed him out of sight. Martyr or Fool? Too dazed to move for a few minutes, the committee finally pulled itself together, had the room cleared, went into executive session. Hour later it was announced that the committeemen had voted unanimously to recommend that Dr. Townsend be cited for contempt of the House. After the House had convened next day, however, it was announced that action had been postponed. Torn between the alternatives of asking the House to make a martyr of Dr. Townsend or of letting Dr. Townsend make a fool of Congress, the hapless committeemen floundered through...
...stenographer. Theodore Bilbo refused to testify against his friend, was jailed for contempt of court by Judge Holmes. Now Senator Bilbo saw his chance for revenge, set out to prevent Judge Holmes's confirmation by the Senate. He declared the nominee "personally obnoxious" to him, swore that Judge Holmes had jailed him for political motives. He brought before the Judiciary subcommittee the story of Pat Harrison's financial misfortunes in Gulf Coast real estate, charging that Judge Holmes had ratified the receiver's agreements by which some of Pat Harrison's debts to the defunct First...
Almost everyone but the jury which frees her seems to believe that Mrs. Ames (Madeleine Carroll) shot and killed her rich husband. An assistant district attorney (George Brent) is so convinced of it that he denounces the jury, gets jailed for contempt of court. Mrs. Ames's dowager mother-in-law (Beulah Bondi) makes the murder a pretext for taking possession of Mrs. Ames's small son. Acting from thoroughly scrambled motives, the assistant district attorney performs some sleuthing while the not particularly bright young widow makes a mess of acting as her own counsel in a court...