Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the onetime U.S. Communist chieftain seemed happy again. When he heard that a bench warrant had been issued in Washington for his arrest on a charge of contempt of Congress, he paid his own way to the capital to surrender to authorities. He refused to post $1,500 bail-he was, he said, too broke to do so. Couldn't his friends raise the money? Fifty-nine-year-old Earl Browder smiled, puffed contentedly at his pipe, and said he had no intention of asking anyone for help...
Princeton decided to dismiss an assistant professor who had been indicted for contempt of Congress; Columbia not only denied permission to speak to Howard Fast, a left-wing author, but also refused to renew the charter of the college's chapter of the Labor Youth League. Princeton would offer no reason for its action; Columbia banned Fast because he was "not objective," and denied the Youth League a charter "because of its affiliation with subversive parent organization...
...resignation, got it. Said Willard Goslin, who received a 16-month salary settlement of $23,250: he was grateful to all his friends in Pasadena but, after all, the voters had elected the members of the present school board. "We are dedicated to representative government. I cannot remain in contempt of democratic action...
...holding his nose and obeying an unpleasant command, ECA announced that it would begin "immediately" to channel to Spanish industries and companies the $62.5 million in ECA funds set aside for Spain by the 81st Congress. Able no longer to ignore the will of Congress, despite its own contempt for the Franco dictatorship, the Administration did its best to make it look as unlike a Marshall Plan project as possible. ECA would send no mission to Madrid, would leave the handling of the money to the Export-Import Bank...
This was in line with a cherished Yale policy of no student government. Elis first expressed contempt for fellow student authority in 1830 in what has since come to be known as the Conic section Rebellion. The revolt was inspired by a combine in the sophomore class that took exception to the way students had to recite on conic sections...