Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unamerican Activities investigation is over, but the resulting contempt of Congress cases are still to be decided. Among those determined to make the Supreme Court define the limits of such contempt is Eugene Dennis, secretary of the American Communist Party. At its final session last term the Court decided to make him wait a little longer. It looks as if Dennis, and the rest of the country will have the Court's answer to this and some other important questions in a short while...
...Teapot Dome furore finally died; Harry Sinclair served out a total of nine months in jail (for contempt of court and of the Senate investigating committee), and Fall went to prison, later died in disgrace. Exile Blackmer stayed at his chateau in France. Even World War II caused him little inconvenience. He was technically a fugitive from justice and had no passport, but when France fell to the Nazis the Swiss welcomed him, his money and his third wife "Kaja," a buxom Norwegian opera singer...
...almost 20,000 pages of testimony. The defense had called 35 witnesses in 109 trial days, the Government 15 in 37 days; between them, opposing counsel had put 761 different exhibits into evidence. Judge Harold Medina had jailed five of the defendants and formally cited one defense lawyer for contempt (his punishment will be set after the verdict is returned...
...adjudge you guilty of willful and deliberate contempt," Judge Harold R. Medina said. "You are to be remanded . . . for a period not to exceed thirty days." Grinning broadly, Witness Carl Winter stepped down from the stand, the fifth Communist to be jailed for contempt in the eight-month conspiracy trial of eleven of the nation's top Reds. Outside the courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square, Communist pickets dutifully picked up the new refrain: "Free Carl Winter. Stop this frame-up." Within minutes, placards appeared, with Winter's name neatly lettered...
...peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling, he was also cited for contempt...