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From the "talebearer" condemned in Ecclesiastes to the "stool-pigeon" villain of the modern-day comic book, the informer has traditionally been the object of peculiar contempt on the part of his fellow citizens. Perhaps this hatred of the man who betrays his fellows has reached its height in the United States--from childhood on, almost every. American absorbs a dread of "tattling". The emotion has become deeply ingrained in our society...
When Sweezy refused to answer, he was declared in contempt of court and ordered confined until he answered. He was finally allowed out on bail, and his case will come up before the N. H. Supreme Court for oral arguments in September...
...meantime, doubts about exact procedure at the trial have delayed a final decision on a trial date. Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 made a trial inevitable by denying defense objections to Furry's indictment for contempt of Congress in a decision April...
When Cleveland Press staffers took a courtroom picture of a deposed local judge on trial for embezzlement, the judge hearing the case objected. But the Press went ahead anyway, was held in contempt of court (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) and fined $700 plus a token jail term for the city editor-one hour in the sheriff's custody. The Press's Editor Louis Seltzer announced that he would appeal the verdict to the highest courts...
...author of God and Man at Yale and of McCarthy and His Enemies, about the only book favorable to McCarthy to have been reviewed in the New York Times His subject was "The Liberal Mind," of which he probed three aspects: its inconsistency; its intolerance; and its contempt for facts and evidence. This, he said, is the kind of mind that dominates both political parties, from President Eisenhower leftward...