Word: contempts
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Stauder, reacting to the department's decision, said last night that "any honest Faculty member who seriously studies what happened in my case is bound to come up with the conclusion that the Administration and Corporation have behaved in a way which shows their essential contempt for the Faculty and students...
Kunstler denounced the contempt of court charges which were leveled against his fellow lawyers by Federal District Court Judge Julius Hoffman. "The lawyers are in great jeopardy in the Chicago case," he said...
...only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness -an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder...
...judge had ruled last Wednesday that four of the nine defense lawyers who withdrew from the case by telegram as the trial opened were in contempt of court. He issued warrants for their arrests, and two of the lawyers were actually arrested and transported back to Chicago. The judge told the defendants that if they felt they wee being "adequately defended," he would release the lawyers...
...four lawyers who withdrew had agreed to do only pretrial work for the case. The judge ruled them in contempt because they did not appear in court, after sending the telegrams...