Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...
Later Senator Walsh declared the Bishop to have been "in plain contempt of the Senate," but the Bishop replied that as the Committee lacked a quorum to subpoena him then and there, it was no committee, could not hold him officially in contempt...
...court a petition that Henry Morris Lull, executive vice president of the road, George Stewart Waid, general manager, and John Givens Torain, assistant to Mr. Waid, had violated the provisions of the injunction and therefore should be sent to jail until they purged themselves of contempt. The Brotherhood alleged these S. P. officials had failed to dissolve the company union and to cease interference with brotherhood affairs, as Judge Hutcheson had ordered. Filed last February, this petition, by joint agreement, was held in abeyance until the Supreme Court should rule on the validity of the injunction. Fortified by last week...
...Contempt...
Free Speech. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Record engaged the law firm headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, onetime U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, to defend it against contempt of court charges. Record editorials and cartoons had smitten the grand jury and prosecutor in an investigation of alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...