Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TEXAS GUINAN FREE, HOLDS KISSING BEE" euphonistically wrote a New York headline writer. "Texas" Guinan, night club hostess, once virile out-of-door woman, helped her brother "Texas Tommy" herd cattle at the age of ten. Last week, freed by Federal Judge Thomas Thacher of charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of the Prohibition Law, she said: "Thank God, that's over," and plastered "Texas Tommy," Herman Edson, the club manager, ''Mike" Edelstein, her lawyer, with smacking busses. Dry agents testified in the trial, that they found the court's injunction reposing sedately...
...written, one must at least be forced to admit that the persistent efforts to get a new trial for these defendants need not be regarded in the light of an effort to justify or excuse their "red" radicalism, or to bring the administration of justice in the Commonwealth into contempt; but rather as an effort to see that all the safeguards are employed with the judicial system itself provides to protect its reputation for fairness by keeping men from being executed for one crime because they may perchance have shown themselves guilty of another. It has been hard...
...lawyer's or doctor's client are privileged in U. S. courts, so this priest insisted were his confessional secrets. The public prosecutor cajoled and bullied; the priest remained obdurate. The judge ended the Punch & Judy show by fining the priest one Swiss franc ($0.1923) for contempt of court, and dismissing him as a witness...
Dearth sentenced him for contempt of Judge Dearth's court. Editor Dale admitted his private but not his legal contempt. He escaped extradition from Ohio and appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court for freedom to return to Muncie...
...answer criminal charges arising from his leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. This was the result of U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision (TIME, Jan. 31) that witnesses who refused to answer proper and pertinent questions when summoned by Congress, may be punished for contempt. Mr. Sinclair had defied a Senate investigating committee in 1924. That was why he found himself in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. After a ten-day trial and acting under specific, simple instruction from Judge William Hitz, the jury pronounced Mr. Sinclair guilty of contempt-a misdemeanor punishable...