Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willing hero or martyr," he told reporters, "but I'll do anything to help the child. I am prepared to go to jail, if necessary, [in] protest against [this] law and its administration." The court granted the Ellises a temporary reprieve from a contempt charge, ordered them to appear in court July 18. Meanwhile police continued their search for Hildy...
...associations of close to a dozen other states. Frequent court decisions have upheld a judge's right to bar photographers from his court. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused even to hear an appeal from the Cleveland Press, whose photographers had been held in contempt for taking courtroom pictures (TIME. May 30). But last week, at a Colorado Springs meeting of the National Press Photographers Association, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. struck a powerful blow against...
...Italy. As his troops swaggered into Rome, they sang: "Home we bring the bald adulterer. Romans, lock your wives away." A cowed Senate voted him dictator-for-life. Caesar was supreme and lorded it over his social peers, showing what Author Duggan considers his "one weakness, a contempt for the self-respect of his fellow men." "Why don't you make me restore the old constitution?" he taunted a venerable Senator who failed to rise in his presence. For such taunts he paid at the base of Pompey's statue...
Congress voted a contempt citation against him in May of last year, but Cornell took no action in the case until the Grand Jury returned its indictment. The University then placed him on salaried leave pending the disposition of the charges and removed him from the courses he was then teaching. Cornell has permitted him to continue to use its laboratories for his research activities under a grant from the American Cancer Society...
Singer's trial on the contempt charges was originally scheduled for February, 1955, but a Federal Judge delayed the case to await the Supreme Court's decision in the Emspak, Quinn, and Bart cases, also involving a witness' refusal to testify before a Congressional committee. The Court's ruling in these cases, announced late last month, contained a generally broad intrepretation of the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and may be relevant to the Singer case as well. In the majority opinion setting aside the contempt conviction of United Electrical Workers' official Julius Emspak, Chief Justice Warren wrote that...