Word: contempts
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...times the inevitable bias seeps through his journalistic veneer. Perhaps justifiably, he cannot avoid occasional criticisms of certain CBS superiors and colleagues, most notably of board chairman William S. Paley. His analysis of some of their actions, while often supported by evidence in the book, reveals his continued contempt for the role they played in his life...
...source. Two months prior to his confrontation with Congress, Schorr, through a public statement, told the House Ethics Committee investigating the leak that he would "not give any testimony about the source." Nevertheless, the panel issued a subpoena requiring the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) correspondent to testify and face contempt of Congress charges if he refused either to appear or to answer question under oath...
Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter of Utah once hauled in nearly 30 postal workers for contempt of court because mail-sorting machinery in Ritter's courthouse was noisy. He freed 29 felony convicts simply because no attorney was present at their parole hearings. Once he had a reporter confined for two hours without explanation; a bailiff said Ritter was angered by the journalist picking his nose in court. He frequently bullies attorneys, threatening them with "one of those 150 meals the sheriff serves up." He awarded a group of Indians suing the Government more than twice what they had asked...
...answered, but when Van Hattum appeared she tartly replied: "I have been told all my life that my vote was a private thing and that I'd never have to tell anybody how I voted." The judge then told her she would have to go to jail for contempt, and a bailiff handcuffed her and held her in a waiting room for the rest of the session. When another illegal voter, Diane Lazinsky, 27, also refused to disclose how she had voted, the judge postponed the case and threatened to jail both women. Michigan's court of appeals...
...Billy's heehaw, one senses a touch of Martha Mitchellism; it is sometimes hard to imagine his adventures ending well. One problem is that Billy's cracker vaudeville is based upon a certain amount of sneering contempt. Under the good ole boy façade lies an unpleasant pool of anger. W.C. Fields was a professional at that kind of thing; it was his trade. The President's brother may discover that the Billy phenomenon can backfire. In any case, there is an unsettling symmetry about these two Carters: a President who forever asks the "decent, honorable...