Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stitches for this motley united front were basted in two months ago when the Los Angeles Bar Association charged the Times with contempt of court, citing editorials on court decisions published after the verdict but before the passing of sentence or other disposition. Two of the five editorials cited dealt with labor cases. One hailed the conviction of a group of C. I. O. sit-down strikers before the court had passed sentence; the other opposed a pending probation plea of two A. F. of L. members convicted of assault. When the Times published two editorials denouncing the suit...
Fortnight ago, Judge Wilson overruled almost all the Times's demurrers, ordered a trial. Some of his reasons: freedom of the press is subordinate to the independence of the judiciary; an article may constitute contempt even if the judge involved never sees it; the question is not what effect the article did have but what effect it might have had; contempt is committed if an article "places the judge in such a position that he will never know whether he was unconsciously biased by its publication"; a case is pending and cannot be commented upon while it is still...
...arguments having been exhausted at the demurrer hearings, the trial last week was a mere formality. The Times-Mirror Co., Publisher Chandler and Managing Editor L. D. Hotchkiss were found guilty of contempt, fined a total of $1,050. Attorney Cosgrove, preparing an appeal, warned: "If the decision. . . is sustained, freedom of the press as it is known and as it has been practiced by the journals of the nation is gone forever...
...rather have The Maytag Co." For standing up for the strikers, Congregational Pastor E. A. Remige was asked to resign, did so last week, saying: "I have simply maintained there are two sides . . . but one can't say that in Newton without getting into trouble." For contempt of court in connection with an injunction restricting picketing, the union's young (27) international president, James B. Carey, and two other officials, were fined $500, given six months in jail, told by Judge Homer A. Fuller that they need not pay a cent or serve a day if they called...
...opera was being written, Librettist Zweig, worried by Nazi growls, suggested that they call the whole thing off, that Strauss get himself another librettist acceptable to the German authorities. In reply to Librettist Zweig's suggestion, white-haired Strauss wrote a long letter. In it he expressed his contempt for the Nazis, and his hunch that by the time the opera was completed they would be out of power anyhow. The letter was addressed to Zweig in Vienna, but Zweig did not receive it. At the Austrian border, Nazi officials opened the letter and read it. While Propaganda Minister...