Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question him was large, pontifical Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, the committee's counsel, spearhead of the forces of Reform. The subject of the interrogation was a telephone call made by Boss Curry last month. The committee had got a horse doctor named William Francis Doyle sentenced to jail for contempt because he refused to answer questions affecting Tammany officeholders. Boss Curry had telephoned Appellate Justice Henry L. Sherman, vacationing at Lake Placid, and induced him to hear a petition which resulted in a stay of Dr. Doyle's sentence. With much sparring by the witness and many a loud...
Before Boss Curry was examined, Inquisitor Seabury called from jail Horse Doctor Doyle whose contempt case had developed into a test of the committee's powers. Mr. Seabury asked Dr. Doyle the one question the Court of Appeals had ruled he must answer: "Did you bribe any public official?" Replied Dr. Doyle: "No." Mr. Seabury and the Republican Committeemen were astonished by this answer, suspected Horse Doctor Doyle of committing perjury. Though the committee voted he was still in contempt, "Doc" Doyle's lawyers got him out of jail on a writ of habeas corpus...
...Doyle case the Court of Appeals issued a ruling which severely limited the committee's powers to compel reluctant witnesses to testify with immunity (TIME, Aug. 17). The whole future course of the investigation depended upon broadening the committee's authority to get information under threat of contempt action. Therefore last week the committee petitioned Governor Roosevelt to summon a special session of the Legislature to pass a bigger & better immunity bill for its use. Within 24 hours the Governor as a matter of "clear duty" issued the call for this week...
Tammany on the Telephone-The legislative committee cited Dr. Doyle for contempt. A Supreme Court Justice sentenced him to 30 days in jail. Then Dr. Doyle's smart young lawyers began appealing to higher and higher courts, occasionally winking at the rules of strict legal ethics. Counsel Seabury thought he had a gentleman's agreement with Doyle's counsel whereby he would be given notice when the case was to be taken before an Appellate judge. He was mistaken. Late one evening, one of Doyle's lawyers raced to Lake Placid, got an uncontested stay from Justice Henry L. Sherman...
...OnIy Canadian ever confined to the Tower was R. C. Miller, no Government official but onetime president of Diamond Light & Heating Co. Ltd. He was condemned for contempt of Parliament...