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Word: contemptibly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until last week, Powell's most flagrant public sin was his defiance of the New York courts that have sentenced him to a 16-month jail term for contempt (he has consistently refused to pay a defamation judgment won by a Harlem Negro widow). Then, on the eve of the new session, the Negro Congressman was hit from a new direction. Reporting on a three-month investigation of the financial affairs of the House Education and Labor Committee, of which Powell is chairman, House probers concluded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Curse of Adam | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Those offenses are, of course, flagrant and inexcusable. Powell has cavalierly misused the privileges accorded him as Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Even more serious, Powell has demonstrated in his dealings with the court an unrepentant contempt for judicial process and for the laws which bind the rest of the citizens of this country. Ten different judges have in fact condemned Powell for "monstrous defiance of the law" and "promoting a tragic disrespect for the judiciary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bearing Powell | 1/9/1967 | See Source »

...House has the right to expel him from its ranks, and certainly expulsion is not too severe a measure in light of his treatment of the courts. Still, banishing Powell from the Capitol would probably create more problems than it solved. No Congressman has ever been expelled for contempt of court before, and such a move would doubtless be construed by Powell's Harlem district as a vicious effort to deprive Negroes of their most effective and powerful congressional spokesman. Powell would return home a martyr, and in the new election which followed the vacating of his seat, he would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bearing Powell | 1/9/1967 | See Source »

...meantime, Congress will have to let Powell have his cake and eat it too. As Supreme Court Justice Mathew Levy commented while citing the Harlem Democrat for criminal contempt of court, "It is not an easy task to punish a minister, a Congressman, a leader of men and a man of many natural gifts." As Congress must concede, without an ethics bill it is impossible to punish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bearing Powell | 1/9/1967 | See Source »

...George Bernard Shaw had "eyes as simple and unmalicious as those of an animal. He talks with a faintly effeminate voice and a soft brogue." Henry Ford's eyes "blaze and blink with faith and his large mouth twists sensitively into all variations of approval, obstinacy, pity and contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Cultivated Mind | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

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