Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Kephart denounced the article as "an indictable offense . . . contempt of court," ordered the record certified to District Attorney Charles F. Kelley of Philadelphia "for such criminal prosecution or such further action as the law requires...
...prohibition societies are already springing up, armed with new crusading vigor, and intent upon running him once and for all out of the land. Then, doubtless, the vicious circle would revolve once more: prohibition would be incomplete, would result in widespread contempt for law and a demand for repeal; then, when repeal was once more obtained, it would again prove wholly untenable and rouse such public indignation as to lead back to prohibition. At no time would the problem of liquor control be satisfactorily solved...
...Jewish ownership of land, they destroy deed records in the Land Registry Office. Not one British policeman risks murder by patrolling Jerusalem streets after midnight. Knickerbocker conclusions: "Nowhere in the British Empire, save perhaps among the savage tribes of the Northwest Frontier [India], do such conditions of disorder and contempt for British authority exist as today in Palestine...
Frequent and widespread has been the expression of contempt for the blundering and faltering progress of the democracies in the present crisis. In history's most gigantic poker game, Hitler plays a winning hand because he has the confidence of a nation behind him, while Chamberlain and Daladier feel the depressing and distracting pull of public opinion. With French Communists threatening to strike rather than submit to national defense measures and British opposition flaring against the Cabinet's City policies, the Reich stands firm and united. Seemingly Fascism has once more demonstrated its ability to outmaneuver democracy because...
...still refuses to be hurried. Meantime, Los Angeles' Superior Court last week found harried Harry Bridges guilty of another offense-trying to influence it in a labor dispute by releasing a telegram to Secretary Perkins threatening a strike if his union lost the case-fined him $125 for contempt of court...