Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Service. In Celina, Ohio, Sheriff Bruce Barber was fined $100 for contempt of court after explaining why he shut down the jail and released four prisoners: "My budget is inadequate to run the jail in a proper manner...
...dealings with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams (TIME, June 23, 1958 et seq.). He would refuse to tell the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight about cash withdrawals of $104,973 from two of his tangled companies on the ground that the questions were not pertinent. Congress slapped him with a contempt charge...
...hired troops dropped by the wayside, Goldfine tried to have the case thrown out of federal court on the claim that his Washington hotel room had been bugged by a former investigator for the subcommittee, but, although his claim was true, the contempt charge remained on the docket. Last week, when he came up for trial, Goldfine, 68, switched his plea from not guilty to nolo contendere (no contest), threw himself on the mercy of the court. Said Federal Judge James Morris: Goldfine's plea is a "complete vindication of the committee. [It] admits all of the relevant facts...
Coming soon: Judge Morris' decision on whether Goldfine may purge himself by answering the unanswered questions, or whether he will be sentenced (maximum: a year in jail and a $1,000 fine) for contempt of Congress...
Franklin to Theodore. Liberal Schlesinger has predictable contempt for the Eisenhower Administration ("The nation is at last coming out of the Eisenhower trance"), but, seeking a clue to the nature of the upcoming liberal wave, he chose a surprising point of reference. Democrats would do well, he wrote, to turn back, not to Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson for the answer, but to the turn of the century and Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican...