Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the autocrat's usual contempt for criticism Governor Curley has forced through the appointment of Arthur Baker as judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Even a hardy political horse-trader like President Roosevelt should take off his hat to his Boston understudy who has exchanged with a member of his own executive council one of the highest judicial posts in the Commonwealth in return for the failure to vote on an important appointment...
Although imprisonment for debt has been abolished, creditors may still obtain judgments and if the debtor does not obey the court's order to pay he may be imprisoned for contempt of court. Debtors unable to pay can generally avoid such imprisonment by going into bankruptcy...
Accused of having wrongfully sold some cattle on which a creditor had a mortgage of $1,370, a judgment for $350 was obtained against Edmond Mingo. Unable to pay, he was found guilty of contempt of court, sent to jail on June 4, 1934. Since then Samuel Insull has been tried three times, acquitted. Since then Farmer Mingo's mother, his only close relative. has died. Since then over 500 days have come & gone. Since then Farmer Mingo has stayed in jail. Last week he was still in jail because the jail commissioners, having received a petition from...
...Thirdly, Mussolini has, and gives the impression of having, a complete contempt for material rewards, money, comfort. . . . Mussolini comes from poverty, preaches poverty, and remains poor. Yes; his devotion to Italy, and only Italy, is as unmistakable as it is absolute. . . . There must be no personal loyalties, no promises, no doctrinal consistency, nor anything else that conflicts with the destiny of a greater Italy. There are some men who cannot desert the friends of yesterday for the sake of their country. Mussolini is not one of these...
...sincere and constructive criticism of the government department would be greatly appreciated by Professor Holcombe and his entire staff. A malicious, untruthful and ignorant attack such as the one by Alan Frazer in the American will be read and remembered with a contempt due the author and the publisher...