Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who fined Lewis and his miners $3,510,000 for contempt of court 17 months ago,* gave him short shrift. Said the judge: "If a nod or a wink or a code was used in place of the word, 'strike,' there was just as much a strike called as if the word 'strike' had been used ... As long as a union is functioning as a union it must be held responsible for the mass action of its members." Judge Goldsborough held that Lewis was guilty of civil and criminal contempt...
John Howard Lawson went on trial in Washington last week for contempt of Congress. The heavy, sharp-featured screenwriter, one of Hollywood's most notorious Communist-liners, had refused to give a yes-or-no answer when asked last fall by the House Un-American Activities Committee: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" He was the first of the famed "unfriendly ten" to go on trial...
...another of his eight defense attorneys objected to everything in sight. They were repeatedly overruled by whitehaired Judge Edward M. Curran. Judge Curran refused to disqualify himself when the defense pointed out that he had been the U.S. attorney in the trial of previous contempt-of-Congress cases. He refused to move the trial when the defense contended that a jury of federal employees would be "intimidated" by the committee. He refused to hear Producer Dore Schary as a character witness, ruling that Lawson's character and political beliefs were not at issue. He refused to see The Jolson...
Eisler, an avowed Communist, has recently been convicted of passport violations and contempt of the Un-American Committee. He is now out on ball pending the outcome of his appeal...
Bradley was found guilty of contempt of the Un-American Committee for refusing to reveal certain names, and, soon after, was ousted from his chairmanship of N.Y.U.'s German Department...