Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After whispers between the Court and his lawyers, Fascist Hitler submitted to a fine of 800 marks ($190) for contempt of court plus 200 marks ($47) for unruly behavior, then quit the stand snarling, "Those Jewish lawyers were just trying to stage a bit of propaganda...
...packers' anti-trust Consent Decree; sustained Oklahoma's oil proration law; voided a Texas law designed to bar Negroes from Democratic primaries; upset reapportionment legislation in Missouri, Minnesota and New York; approved the jailing of Alphonse Capone and the fining of Harry M. Blackmer, oil runaway, for contempt of court (see p. 12); invalidated Oklahoma's law to limit ice dealers by "convenience & necessity" license; denied the Senate's right to oust George Otis Smith from the Federal Power Commission after sending his confirmed nomination back to the President...
Henry M. Blackmer, onetime head of Midwest Refining Co., was still self-exiled in France for the same reason. Last month he paid a $60,000 fine for contempt of court growing out of his refusal to return to the U. S. and testify. He also settled income tax irregularities for $3,670,000, but still pending against him were conspiracy charges for tax violations. Last week in Manhattan, George E. Holmes, one of his swarm of attorneys, flumped in the subway, was killed...
...circumstances there was only one thing to do. That was to convert the term of contempt and reproach into a term of distinction. . . . When the Dutch settlers of New York called their neighbors to the North 'Yankees' they thought they were speaking derisively. But who is ashamed of being a Yankee today...
...would have been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task almost impossible under present conditions of faltering leadership and public indifference...