Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer last week appeared in the U.S. court of appeals in Washington to face a charge of contempt of court, the first ever filed against a Cabinet officer. Sawyer and nine others, including federal officials, were cited for defying the court's order to return the $68 million 'American President Lines to its former owner, R. Stanley Dollar (TIME, April 2). Warned Judge Bennett C. Clark as he handed down the contempt citation: "It seems to me somebody is about to advise Sawyer into jail...
Minor Nets. These men were the prime sources of information. There were minor spies and subsidiary nets in the Soviet apparatus.* On the Pacific coast, Communist Steve Nelson, now under indictment for contempt of Congress, organized a cell in the radiation laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. Another ring operated around Chicago with Scientist Clarence Hiskey (also under indictment for contempt) as a chief contact. In New York, Yakovlev directed the activities of Courier Harry Gold, in his pickups from Fuchs and from Alfred Dean Slack (now serving 15 years for espionage), who gave Gold a sample...
...mind about TV's "technical difficulties" and "distractions." Ohio's Senator Taft complained that, on TV, "the Senators are talking to the people rather than to each other." Washington's Senator Harry Cain was so touched by the plight of some witnesses cited for contempt that he felt they might just have been frightened "by all those lights and apparatus...
...Carr finally made his decision. Since David had nearly finished the school year, said the court, he might stay on and be promoted with his class. But father McVey would have to pay a price for his principles: a $150 fine or another 20 days in jail for contempt of court. Carpenter McVey, released on bond, said he would appeal the case...
...basic purpose of such an investigation is to provide Congressmen with facts necessary for intelligent legislation. Reluctant witnesses who refuse to testify in closed sessions are charged with contempt of Congress, a delicate legal problem. But with the advent of televised open hearings, the probers demand that a witness not only answer their questions but answer them for the instruction and titillation of every TV owner in the country. There is considerable doubt that a witness can legally be punished for refusing to make a public spectacle of himself on the televised screen. Eventually, this will be a problem...