Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by two of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten," convicted two years ago for contempt of Congress, the decision (TIME, April 24) meant that the other eight would also have to start serving their prison terms. Last week, readers of the Hollywood Reporter noted one repercussion in the classified...
Only a few high-priced lawyers maneuvering desperately stood last week between "the Hollywood ten" and jail. Two of the noisy leftist screenwriters and directors had been convicted of contempt of Congress, fined $1,000 each, sentenced to one-year jail terms for refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee their political affiliations. Last week the Supreme Court decided, 6 to 2, not to hear their appeals...
...movie plot. One of the inmates at Danbury is New Jersey's pudgy, broken ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, who is behind bars for padding his congressional payroll and pocketing the proceeds. It was he who presided over the committee that cited the Hollywood ten for contempt...
...Court has refused to review the conviction of the Hollywood Ten for contempt of Congress. Ducking the responsibility of saying why, the Court has in effect okayed the Un-American Committee's pat routine for jailing the opposition. The Committee simply calls a man up to the stand and asks him if he "is or ever has been." If the man is a Communist who, like most such, cannot reveal his membership without losing his job, or if he's simply a decent person, Communist or not, who refuses to be party to political suppression, he gives no answer...
...Court has ruled against the contention of the Communist Eugene Dennis that the jury which convicted him of contempt of Congress could not be impartial because it included Government employees. Yet not long before it had found that a Government worker is not an impartial juror in a case involving the dope trade! It's unfair to the Court majority to assume it is ignorant of the terror of the left which is instilled in Government workers by the continuing "loyalty" purges. The only interpretation that can be put on the decision in the Dennis case is that the Justices...