Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sloppy state traffic enforcement, Superior Court Judge Horace E. Nichols took out after the paper. He demanded that the paper print the evidence he submitted to prove that the series was wrong. Constitution Editor Ralph McGill refused. Highhanded Judge Nichols forthwith cited McGill and Managing Editor William Fields for contempt of court, fined them each $200 and sentenced them to 20 days in jail (TIME, May 12). Last week, in what the Constitution called "a historic decision," Georgia's supreme court unanimously overruled Judge Nichols' decision...
Said Supreme Court Chief Justice W. H. (for William Henry) Duckworth: the "records justify every conclusion stated [in the paper's series] . . . [There are] no grounds whatever to sustain a conviction for contempt . . . The judge was utterly without power to require or compel publication . . . without pay [of the proof] he requested them to publish . . . If a worthy judge may employ contempt-of-court process to silence unjust criticism . . . then this same rule would enable an unworthy judge to silence the press in just criticism...
...most numerous type (and at this time of year the resorts are lousy with 'em) is the "snowbunny." This term is usually mouthed with much contempt by those who "know how." It means that the poor guy hasn't had much experience. He asks straight as far as he can till he meets another skier, or a tree, or a bump, and then he falls down. When he gets up he tries again. But he's happy. He loves the feel of the cool clear crystals in his early, the wind whipping by his watering eyes, and the relaxing ride...
...beyond the scope of this letter. For example, the immunity under the Fifth Amendment of a witness before a federal agency does not ordinarily extend to exoneration from compulsory self-incrimination of offenses under State law; but recently some lower federal courts have refused to find witnesses guilty of contempt of the "Kefauver committee" when they refused to answer questions tending to convict them of certain State crimes that committee was investigating. A sense of sportsmanship toward suspected associates is not an excuse: the Fifth Amendment grants no privilege to protect ones friends. If a man feels that...
However, a witness who testifies without protest to a part of his Communist connection may find that he has lost his privilege of silence, and must tell the rest or stand punishment for contempt. In 1948 another witness before a federal grand jury in Colorado testified that she had been Treasurer of the Communist Party of Denver until eight months previously, and that she had then turned over the membership lists and dues record of the Party to another. But she refused to tell to whom she had given them, saying, "I don't feel that I should subject...