Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, U.S. District Judge Charles McLaughlin upheld the conviction of Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller on one count of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer two questions on the identity of persons attending a Communist writers' meeting, put to him last year by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Judge McLaughlin, who had already dismissed the first count on Miller's plea that the Supreme Court had ruled in the Watkins case that Congress may investigate only to alter or initiate legislation, last week fined him $500 and gave him a one-month suspended sentence...
Last week, after he had appeared as a Government witness in the contempt trial of White Supremacist John Kasper and 15 Clinton citizens. Editor Wells's questions were resoundingly answered at the National Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors' annual convention in Car bon'dale, Ill. There Wells received...
...interpretation of an already sweeping decision, U.S. District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl in Washington last week shortened the leash that the Supreme Court recently tied to congressional investigating committees. Taking off from the Supreme Court's ruling in the Watkins case (TIME, July 1), Youngdahl set aside the contempt-of-Congress conviction of the New York Times's Copyreader Seymour Peck, who last year declined to tell a Senate Internal Security subcommittee the names of Reds he had known during the twelve years he was a Communist (he quit the party...
...shows have aroused neither scorn nor outraged contempt, and they have had serious attention from critics. But the general reaction of both press and public has been rather tepid and indifferent. Nevertheless, the shows' sponsors feel a sense of accomplishment. Said Collector Lawrence Fleischman, whose fine collection of American paintings (TIME, Sept. 10) was sent abroad by USIA last year: "In this propaganda battle today, Russia's weakest point is that its artists have to create according to the way the government tells them. Nobody who sees these shows can fail to understand that our artists paint...
...whistled southeastward out of Oakland, Calif. in his T-33 jet one day last May, Air Force Lieut. David Steeves, like any pilot, could survey the earth beneath him with something of detached contempt. Traveling at better than 500 m.p.h., he seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind him, in twinkling miniature, lay the sweep of San Francisco Bay; ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow...