Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard refuses to comply with a HUAC subpoena, the University may be taken to court and charged with contempt of Congress. In his letter to Gale, Pusey suggested that this was not possible. "The College dean's office," Pusey wrote, "does not require membership lists of political organizations, so, of course, we would not be able to give this information even if requested to do so." This statement, however, is not wholly correct. Harvard keeps a record of the officers of all student organizations, and reserves the right of access to membership lists of political organizations, though this right...
Powell's no-show was prompted by prudence; there was a warrant out for his arrest. With a citation for criminal contempt still hanging over him, he appealed for immunity from arrest on Sundays, was turned down 4 to 1 by the judges of the New York Appellate Division. "Surely," the court ruled, "one who disobeys an order during six days of the week is not entitled to an advis ory opinion that he may safely ignore it on the seventh." Had Powell come to New" York and got himself arrested, there was a strong possibility that Harlem would...
...first letter in his "war" condemned the Committee's contempt proceedings against Arthur Stamler, a noted Chicago cardiologist. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago has convened a three-judge district court to hear Stamler's constitutional arguments against HUAC...
...taken acts of peculiar genius over the last five months by Sir Sydney Caine, outgoing Director of the LSE, and his allies, to bring the unquestioned authority of the School Administration into a state of seige. Their actions have had a common theme: contempt for the student's position in the university, or at best, disbelief that worthwhile changes could be brought about by "unofficial means." Thus last fall, when students wanted to ask Director-designate Walter Adams some well-founded questions about his administration of University College, Rhodesia, the LSE authorities stuck to the letter of their regulations...
Hollander said yesterday that he did not think this would promote better Soviet-American relations. "This is just my private feeling," he said, "but I think the only Soviet reaction is probably one of contempt...