Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without interest) from his union's treasury for personal investments. His inability to recognize that there was anything wrong with the act is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. While Beck's performance drew the headlines, a Washington jury found newspaperman Seymour Peck guilty of contempt of Congress [See PRESS]. Ex-Communist Peck had freely testified to his own past deeds but declined to name other men he had known in the same net. In the end, the courts may decide that Beck's silence is technically less vulnerable to punishment than Peck...
...only 30 minutes, a federal jury in Washington last week found Seymour Peck, 39, a New York Times deskman, guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions put to him by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (TIME, Dec. 10). Peck, who has been kept on by the Times, told the committee that he had been a Communist for 14 years (until 1949), but he refused to name other party members he had known, claiming that it was his right under the First Amendment to do so. Maximum possible sentence: one year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...Major Irving Peress, a dental officer accused as a Communist. The committee's decision, reached after a two-day, closed-door session: a unanimous (12-to-0) vote to approve the Zwicker promotion. Editorialized the New York Times: "The action is only the most recent indication of the contempt in which one Joseph R. McCarthy is rightly held by his colleagues...
Washington, March 27--Teamster titan Dave Beck, a Fifth Amendment witness, wound up an initial appearance before Senate rackets probers today under scorching denunciation for "arrogant contempt...
...only too well aware of his sociological responsibilities, many of his predecessors in the industry could hardly have cared less about such niceties. In the early days of U.S. insurance, most firms were stock companies concentrated in the hands of a few powerful men who treated policyholders with royal contempt, and piled up royal fortunes. By 1905, scandals so wracked the industry with revelations of fraud, corruption and lavish parties given by insurance executives that New York State 'started an investigation. It uncovered such fraud that before long the industry was under stricter governmental control; sharp-eyed insurance commissions...