Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruling, and the judge coolly ran the trial on a brisk timetable assuring its completion before newsmen could possibly get in. On the trial's second day, when seven reporters defiantly barged in, he ordered them right out, but avoided the possible delay of charging them with contempt. Why had he banned the press? Because, said Judge Geary, Mrs. Black was preparing to describe how her husband had forced her to commit perverse acts, and public knowledge of the case would "embarrass not only the defendant but the four women on the jury." Added the judge...
Respect & Contempt. Sickles' life sprawled, bounced and hopped over the incredible period between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. He was born four years after Waterloo and died in the year World War I began. He was a high-spirited boy (or what would now be called a delinquent) who matriculated at one of New York's most cultivated households, that of Mozart Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, where he learned a respect for languages and a contempt for bourgeois morality. He was to need both...
When Senator McCarthy refused last week to appear in Judge Bailey Aldrich's courtroom for the pending trial of Professor Wendell Furry, the Senator said he wanted to avoid giving Judge Aldrich a chance to repeat the "insult" he delivered to the Senate by refusing to uphold its contempt citation against Leon J. Kamin. The bitterness with which McCarthy accused the Judge of a lack of objectivity in "communist" cases, however, made it seem likely that the Wisconsin Senator was concerned more with his own dignity than that of the Senate, and was anxious to avoid a setback similar...
Calling Aldrich "a demonstrably incompetent judge," the Wisconsin Senator said his "past conduct proves that he will not rule fairly and objectively in a Communist case." He added that Aldrich's refusal to uphold the Senate's contempt citation was an insult. He said, "We should not give him an opportunity to insult the Senate again...
...Hampshire Supreme Court yesterday denied Paul M. Sweezy '31, former instructor in Economics, a reconsideration of a previous ruling upholding his contempt conviction. Sweezy had refused to answer questions in a New Hampshire state investigation of Communism...