Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District Attorney Grain. He restrained his own Republican Attorney General from extending a separate inquiry. Finally the Legislature, impatient with these scattered efforts to clean up Tammany Town, authorized its own investigation, put Mr. Seabury in charge. As yet nobody has gone to jail for anything more serious than contempt as a result of this legislative investigation but the crime and corruption of Tammany officials has been exhibited daily through the Press...
...What are the Hitlerites but human dust?" asked Leon Trotsky in a manifesto to German Reds. "Their vain chat ter about 'Social Fascism' . . . their empty imitation of real Fascism . . . should fill every German Communist with contempt...
...case began when Editor Mapoles, fined $10 for contempt of court because of a newsstory which offended Judge T. B. Robertson, appeared in court with 17 local lawyers to appeal his case. Soon afterward the following letter appeared in the "People's Forum" of the News...
...newsmen regarded with wonder the action of a Canadian Court of Assizes in authorizing contempt proceedings against the Toronto Star for publishing an interview with Sergeant John Leopold, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who testified against Communists on trial. Said the court: "Newspapers have no business publishing an interview of things that were given outside the witness box while this trial is proceeding...
...intention to try to minimize the value of the Crusaders, but at the name time it is hard not to feel distrust for a movement which is so collegiate in the worst sense of the word. It is not adult to hold politics in such contempt; it is not adult to appeal through popular names on the letter-head and cheap publicity; it is not adult to start out with a bang and to accomplish nothing. Until the Crusaders sober down there are may better ways to dispose of a dollar, this year of all years. J. B. Jackson...