Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind closed doors, the Senate had deliberated for six hours on contempt proceedings against William MacCracken Jr., Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, Harris M. Hanshue, Gilbert L. Givvin. All were charged with removing or permitting to be removed from Air Lobbyist MacCracken's Washington offices correspondence previously subpenaed by the Senate's ocean & airmail contract investigating committee (TIME...
...MacCracken, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, longtime secretary of the American Bar Association, heard himself sentenced to ten days in the District jail for contempt...
...That," pronounced Vice President Garner, "is the order of the Senate." It was also the order of the Senate that Defendant Brittin serve a like term. Mr. Brittin had destroyed some Northwest Airways correspondence. The other two, Western Air Express officials, were purged of contempt because they had later returned to the Senate committee letters taken from the MacCracken office...
...Last man to be jailed for contempt of the Senate was Oilman Harry Sinclair in 1929. Oilman Sinclair, however, was prosecuted, sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the District of Columbia Supreme Court on the Senate's complaint...
...feel that conditions on Duke campus at the present time are such that you should come at once to see for yourself that student opinion means nothing to the present administration. We feel that we are treated like children, not men. Real universities do not treat student opinion with contempt. For thorough investigation we suggest that you do not communicate with any members of the administration. Wire when you will arrive...