Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, Senate rackets investigators were proceeding with their own schedules. To show that he means business in the weeks ahead, Arkansas' John McClellan got his Government Operations Committee to cite for contempt four Teamster officers who had refused to testify about the union's financial affairs on the ground that the subcommittee was without jurisdiction. Among those cited: Einar O. Mohn, Beck's personal assistant, and Seattle's Frank W. Brewster, chairman of the Teamsters Western conference, which the subcommittee charged with coughing up $8,826.98 to pay some of Beck's personal bills...
...heart-to-heart with an enlightened boss. Labor's problems, indeed, have grown so large that the combined exertions of a Senate Subcommittee and the AFL-CIO may not suffice. Unethical and illegal practices have had had so many years to entrench themselves in organized labor, that citations for contempt of Congress and the AFL-CIO's ethical practices code are merely a first, if difficult, step in the right direction...
Robert Shelton, 30, the New York Times copy editor who was found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to tell a Senate subcommittee if he was a Communist (TIME, Jan. 28), returned last week to Washington's Federal Courthouse for sentencing. Pleading against a jail term for his client, Attorney Joseph L. Rauh, chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, made probably the least effective legal argument of the week, contending that "there can be no question" of Shelton's loyalty, since he had "made a clean breast of his past to his employers" and remained...
After a two-day trial without jury, Judge Rizley found Shelton guilty of contempt, dismissed as "patently unsound" Rauh's argument that the investigation was 1) illegal, and 2) aimed specifically at the Times...
Judge Rizley fined Mrs. Mary Knowles, 46, the Plymouth Meeting, Pa. librarian who was found guilty of contempt of Congress (TIME, Jan. 21), $500 and sentenced her to 120 days in jail-longest term ever handed a woman for contempt of Congress...