Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the order to integrate Clinton high school came last January, hardly any of the townfolk liked the idea-but nearly all of them accepted it as law. Then upon Clinton descended Demagogue Frederick John Kasper, 27, a Washington, D.C. bookseller (now free on $10,000 bond while a contempt-of-court conviction is being appealed), to breathe racial fire into the quiet town. The vast majority of Clintonians remained willing to obey the law. But some followed Kasper, set themselves up as an obscene, stone-throwing vigilante group, drove the Negro children from Clinton high school (TIME, Sept...
Within hours after the violence had erupted, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. ordered an FBI roundup of Clinton's segregationist leaders. Next day 16 of them (including White Citizens Council Leader W. H. Till and hate-spouting, part-time Preacher Alonzo Bullock) were arrested on contempt-of-court charges. At Clinton high school, shortly after it was closed, about 50 students met with Jerry Shattuck, 17, student-council president and football captain, and called for compliance "with the Federal Court order to provide an education for all the citizens of Anderson County who desire...
Four Manhattan newsmen who refused to answer questions put by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee during its investigation of Communism in the press (TIME, Jan. 16) were indicted last week by a Washington grand jury for contempt of Congress. They are New York Timesmen Alden Whitman, 43, Robert Shelton, 30, Seymour Peck, 39, and ex-Daily News Reporter William A. Price, 41. All had invoked the First Amendment (freedom of the press) in either refusing to identify onetime Communist associates or refusing to answer questions about possible Communist affiliations. The Timesmen, said the Times, will keep their jobs "until there...
...Hear You Whisper. In Los Angeles, a judge found Mrs. Florence Berzon in contempt of a restraining order and gave her a five-day suspended jail sentence for telephoning her husband at his office as many as 60 times a day, after she explained: "I only wanted to find...
...unearthly beauty. Five times she was called back by the deliriously happy audience, five times she stood, stony and arrogant, before turning away. On the sixth call, she relented, bowed to everybody except the hecklers. Then she faced them, suddenly flung up her arms in a gesture of spitting contempt. Says she, with savage satisfaction: "As long as I hear them stirring and hissing like snakes out there, I know I'm on top. If I heard nothing from my enemies, I'd know I was slipping. I'd know they're not afraid...