Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still prevented from visiting New York by contempt-of-court citations that could jail him, Powell said that he would not have to campaign anyway. Nevertheless, reinforced by the presence of CORE'S Floyd McKissick, he got in a few licks for the benefit of reporters and TV cameras. "Long before Mr. Meredith was having his diapers changed," he mocked, "I was walking the streets of Harlem on picket lines." Noting that Meredith describes himself as an "independent Democrat," Powell observed that "anybody who is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket has got to be a little tetched...
...summer home in Seebull, not far from his birthplace on the North Sea coast-but he did not stop painting. To his diary he revealed: "I still hold my head high, and only to you, my little pictures, do I sometimes confide my grief, my torment, my contempt...
...blackout would extend from arrest to verdict (often years). Defense attorneys, prosecutors and police would be subject to contempt proceedings...
Most alarming to the press, the committee argued that during a jury trial (though not before) the same contempt proceedings should be invoked against anyone else who makes an out-of-court statement that is "reasonably calculated to affect the outcome of the trial and seriously threatens to have such an effect." That could include newsmen. Editors and even judges bridled at the A.B.A. plan. Judge George C. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit called it "the most dangerous threat to American ideals of free speech and press since the days of Joe McCarthy...
...Appeals for the Second Circuit, who chairs the New York City bar association's fair-trial committee. Medina's group has now issued its own report calling for a "soft" approach that rejects pretrial court control over both the press and the police by means of contempt or any other form of "judicial censorship." Medina urged hands off the press, strictly voluntary codes of police silence, and only a tightened canon of ethics that would put the possible suspension or disbarment of talkative prosecutors and defense lawyers primarily in the hands of local bar associations - not courts. Where...