Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work either in Washington or in their Congressman's home district. As a result of her failure to appear, Subcommittee Chairman Wayne Hays of Ohio said that he would recommend that she be removed from the congressional payroll, and that steps be initiated to cite her for contempt of Congress...
...yacht, Adam's Fancy, playing dominoes with the natives, sipping Cutty Sark-and-milk, and philosophizing in typical Powell-ese. "Let's be sweet and walk together," he said last week. "Keep the faith." As to why he has not made some move to purge the contempt charges against him, Powell says: "My head isn't bloody, much less bowed...
Remarkably, it took the jury nearly seven hours to find the cons guilty-whereupon Judge Fiok finally had his innings. After handing each defendant a sentence of up to 40 years, Fiok rattled off contempt citations that added up to a total of 37 years to be served in solitary confinement and at hard labor. Unhappily, the trio must now also be tried for their mid-trial escape-unless the state takes mercy on Pittsburgh judges and drops the charges...
Held in civil contempt for refusing to pay a $164,000 libel judgment, Powell for months has been subject to arrest and a year's imprisonment if he entered the state. He was safe on Sundays, though, because the case did not involve criminal contempt, and his congressional immunity protected him whenever the House was in session. But Powell was recently held in criminal contempt as well as civil contempt, and State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewich last week issued an order for his arrest on "any day"-including Sundays and days when Congress is meeting. The chairman...
That was too much for at least one of Adam's House colleagues. Unless Powell purges himself of contempt by the time Congress convenes in January, California Democrat Lionel van Deerlin said, he would invoke a House rule that allows any member to challenge the seating of another. "No tradition of Congress," he said, "would be hallowed enough to justify seating...