Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report that from Mr. MacCracken, he had nothing more than a letter. Senate faces grew grim as they listened to Mr. MacCracken's letter declaring his "greatest respect" for the Senate, denying its right to summon him to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt. While the clerk's voice droned on, Senator Black scribbled rapidly, drafting a resolution ordering Sergeant Jurney to arrest and forthwith bring Mr. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate. With no delay the resolution was passed and Mr. Jurney with a red carnation in the buttonhole of his morning...
...Garnett. The Justice heard the tale, then ruled that: 1) Mr. MacCracken had been not arrested but had been trespassing in Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate, but his own client came when Lawyer Garnett announced he was pondering charging MacCracken with perjury for falsely swearing that he had been arrested...
That another standard of honor and taste does exist, however deplorable, Nemo cannot deny. Otherwise there would be nothing at which he could stick out his tongue, otherwise nothing at which he could thumb his nose; nothing against which he could display his contempt with the Bowery razz. It would seem to be only fair, then, that he should accord to the other school, the same frank admission of honesty of character and motive freely granted...
...MacCracken was arrested for contempt of Senator Black's Committee before which he had appeared as a balky witness two days prior. In 1926, Mr. MacCracken, a specialist on aviation law, took up his post as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics under Secretary Hoover. In October 1929, he tendered President Hoover his resignation, stayed on in Washington as a lawyer-lobbyist for nearly all the larger air transport companies. From witnesses called during the previous three weeks Senator Black had learned that in May 1930 there had been a meeting of big air line operators in the Post...
...followed his arrest. At Mr. Black's request the Senate cited Col. Brittin (who had destroyed his papers), Mr. Givvin (who returned papers said to be the same as those taken) and his boss Harris Hanshue to appear and show cause why they should not be held in contempt of the Senate. Trusting Mr. MacCracken no more the Committee seized all the papers in his office...