Word: misdemeanor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life, then of Judge, then of the Wall Street Journal; in Manhattan. In 1906 he was barred from 47 theatres because of his criticisms. He took the matter through the courts, but the Court of Appeals upheld the managers. Subsequently a bill was passed at Albany making it a misdemeanor to refuse to sell a theatre ticket...
...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 with one to twelve months in a "common jail," and a fine ranging from...
...Misdemeanor, the work of a Colyumist, outdoes the weekly ebullitions of a similar nature in the other College Comic. The author has evidently perused the parallel column with some regularity and something less than whole-hearted admiration...
...Federal bench that they must be careful in their conduct outside of court as well as in the court itself and that they must not use the prestige of their judicial position, directly or indirectly, to secure personal benefit. By the liberal interpretation of the term 'high misdemeanor' which the Senate has given it, there is now no difficulty in securing the removal of a judge for any reason that shows him unfit...
...cannot be impeached. The majority of the House took the exactly opposite view. They argued that Judge English's conduct must be considered as a whole, and if as a whole it stank to heaven, then he should be impeached even if there was no one proved crime or misdemeanor. The majority...