Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shorn of his parliamentary immunity, Cattáneo was immediately subject to arrest on the new criminal charge of "disrespect" to the President. Two former Radical deputies, Ernesto Sammartino and Agustín Rodríguez Araya, previously ejected from the Chamber, had set him an example by fleeing to Uruguay (TIME, Oct. 10). While police searched 64 public establishments and private homes (including those of two high-ranking army officers), Cattáneo gave them the slip in the middle of a downtown Buenos Aires traffic jam. At week's end he, too, apparently was safe in Montevideo...
President Juan Perón launched a new and bitter campaign last week against Argentina's leading newspapers, La Prensa and La Nación. He announced that he would prosecute them under his new law of "disrespect" (TIME, Oct. 10) for reporting a speech in which he was accused of enriching himself while in office...
Saadi was whipped. In rapid succession he was thrown i) out of the Peronista party and 2) into jail. The charge: showing disrespect for the President...
Most dramatic of the new steps was a sharpening of the statute on Desacato, disrespect for established authority. The old law made it illegal to offend the office of President, Vice President or federal justice. The new amendment provides punishments up to three years' imprisonment for offending the personal "dignity or decorum" of a public functionary...
This was not a mark of disrespect; they did not recognize him. Louis St. Laurent possesses to a marked degree the 19th Century attributes of probity, confidence and dignity?which seem to be taking on a new luster as the undignified 20th Century reaches its halfway point. He does not court public adulation. Besides, Canadians had given him the salute that counts in last June's general election: the widest mandate ever handed to a national leader (TIME, July 4). When the Canadian Parliament opens next week, St. Laurent's Liberal Party will hold a record total...