Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practicing Roman Catholic, I must say that I have nothing but contempt for those ungracious, unsympathetic remarks made by a Vatican spokesman against Archbishop Rummel's views on integrating whites and Negroes (Aug. 19). What New Orleans...
...riot by Yankee Racist John Kasper, Clinton roughnecks tried to chase Negro pupils away from high school, beat up a Baptist minister, forced Governor Frank Clement to call out the National Guard, and brought on a court case in which Kasper and six others were found guilty of criminal contempt (TIME. Aug. 5). Last week Clinton High School opened for the 1957-58 school year with eight Negroes present. It was a calm day: the troublemaking minority squelched, integration had been established in Clinton. Tennessee's next test: Nashville, this week...
...illustrated by the fouled sparkplugs brought along by the four biggest of them: bellowing Dave Beck, newly harassed (he cried) by some absurd vendetta of the income tax people; Minneapolis Teamster Vice President Sidney L. Brennan, convicted of accepting a bribe; Western Conference Chair man Frank Brewster, convicted of contempt of Congress; and, with topmost billing in the news, James Riddle Hoffa, chairman of the Central States Conference of Teamsters, struggling to keep his tail gate from the teeth...
...critics, Hoffa claims only contempt. "I don't give a damn what they say," he says. "Jimmy Hoffa can take care of himself. Why don't the newspapers go out and ask my members what they think of Jimmy Hoffa? They can't prove I've misused my union power...
Albert Maltz, playwright and novelist, convicted in 1950 along with other members of the "Hollywood Ten" for contempt of Congress, after refusing to tell the House Committee on Un-American Activities whether he was a Communist...