Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ally and possible rival, Lawyer Swart, once tr'ed-and failed-to make his fortune in Hollywood (he played a bit part as a giant). A strident anti-Semite ("No Jewish votes are wanted"), he shares Strydom's Anglophobia, but reserves his bitterest contempt for the native four-fifths of South Africa's population. Swart once dramatized his plans to get tough with the Negroes by appearing in Parliament with a cat-o'-nine-tails tucked under...
...Upheld Federal Judge Harold R. Medina in slapping contempt judgments on the five attorneys who, with harassing courtroom tactics, defended the eleven top Communists convicted in New York in 1949 for violation of the Smith Act. The court, wrote Justice Jackson for the majority (in a 5-3 split), will always stand behind lawyers in fearless performance of their duty, but "will not equate contempt with courage or insults with independence." Dissenters Black, Frankfurter and Douglas held that the attorneys were entitled to trial by jury in another court. Added Douglas and Frankfurter: "One who reads the record . . . will have...
...letter, dated March 11, says the Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer book contains "defamatory statements concerning Mr. David Beck of Seattle, Washington, which tend to expose him to hatred, contempt, and ridicule... Mr. Dave Beck intends to sue the authors and publishers of this book...
...Last week Field was freed from federal prison at Ashland, Ky. He had been sentenced last July for contempt of court, i.e., for refusing to answer questions concerning Communist bail funds...
Patterson, who is awaiting trial on charges of contempt of Congress, went on, "American morals are worse than those of Nazi Germany before the War," and he forecast more race riots and lynchings in 1952. "Most of our churches are Jim Crow churches, so they must worship a Jim Crow God," he noted...