Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name then or later famed in Chicago's gangland appeared on the payrolls of the newspapers-Gus Altman, Boston Tommy, the Delehanty brothers. Great wonder it would have been if such under-worldlings had not learned from their smart newspaper employers a lot about organized violence and contempt...
Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...
Later Senator Walsh declared the Bishop to have been "in plain contempt of the Senate," but the Bishop replied that as the Committee lacked a quorum to subpoena him then and there, it was no committee, could not hold him officially in contempt...
...Contempt...
Free Speech. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Record engaged the law firm headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, onetime U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, to defend it against contempt of court charges. Record editorials and cartoons had smitten the grand jury and prosecutor in an investigation of alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...