Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capone's getting all of the Federal punishment coming to him. Snorkey's attorneys believed that by saving the Government the trouble of a trial they may get their client off with a sentence of three years for both offenses. Still pending is a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9). Capone, now aged 33, hopes that when he leaves prison he will still be a young man, that times will be better, that he can profitably resume business...
Last week the third Federal lash was laid across the porcine back of Chicago's Alphonse Capone. In addition to the six-month sentence he received (and has appealed) for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9), and the indictment for income tax evasion for which he may receive 32 years in prison and a fine of $80.000 (TIME, June 15), he and 68 henchmen were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to violate the national Prohibition laws. The true bill did not mention the various Capone sidelines such as gambling, bordellos, whiskey peddling, specified only the "manufacture...
Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...
Last week the relentless forces of the Federal Government were closer than ever before to an inevitable show-down with Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone. Out on appeal from a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9), Capone was arrested for Federal income tax evasion, released on $50,000 bond...
...feeling between northern and southern California changes from contempt to hostility whenever there is a State appointment to be made. Last week Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph had to choose a State Director of Social Welfare, a position which carries considerable prestige among the women† of California. Harried by ladies of wealth and prominence in both ends of his commonwealth, unsmiling Governor Rolph had for some time considered appointing two social welfare directors to placate both sections. In the end, however, he took the bull by the horns, gave Mrs. Rheba Crawford Splivalo of San Francisco...