Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last January "Handsome Frank" Brewster, longtime king of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' fearsome West Coast goon squads, refused to answer the questions of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee on the grounds that it was exceeding its authority. Cited for contempt of Congress, the Teamsters' Vice President Brewster, goon companion of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, claimed that he had purged himself by later appearing before the special McClellan committee and telling how he had used Teamsters' money to finance, among other things, his racing stables. Despite this plea, made before a federal judge in Washington, Handsome Frank...
...week began with this tactical situation: the civil rights bill, with the Senate amendment requiring jury trials in all criminal contempt cases, was stuck fast in the House Rules Committee and needed G.O.P. votes to bring it out. But Joe Martin, who is not even certain that he has any Negroes in his district ("I've seen one or two of them on the streets in Attleboro, but I can't say I can recall the names of any of them"), was determined to place a Republican stamp on what then stood as a Democratic bill. Said Martin...
...then again and again, finally announced: "This is very deep stuff. I'll have to have a little more time to digest it." Whereupon he disappeared into his office, taking with him four fellow Texans to aid in the digestive process. The Republicans' "deep stuff": 1) the contempt of court provisions of the bill would apply to violations of voting rights only, and not to all criminal contempt cases, as the Senate bill provided; 2) in criminal contempt cases based on denial of the right to vote, federal judges would be allowed to set sentences...
...John Stennis, North Carolina's Sam Ervin-and gauged the intensity of their reaction. That night Lyndon and Sam met secretly: the Senate, said Lyndon, would probably accept 30 days in jail and a $200 fine as the dividing line between judicial decree and jury trials in criminal contempt cases having to do with voting rights...
...House took legislative notice of an inequity so far generally overlooked by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker and his Bricker Amendment followers. Also voted: $33,236 for Gypsy Markoff, injured in the same crash. ¶ Cited, in the House, three Un-American Activities Committee witnesses for contempt of Congress. The three-a radio broadcaster, a radio operator and a Western Union service writer-had refused to answer questions about Communism. Their grounds: the U.S. Supreme Court's Watkins case decision, which held that a witness must have a clear legislative reason for the congressional investigation and that...