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When a Cleveland Press photographer violated the court's instructions last month by taking a courtroom picture of a defendant whom the Press had helped indict, Common Pleas Judge Joseph H. Silbert charged the photographer and two other Press staffers with contempt for "transgressing the dignity and honor of the court [TIME, Sept. 7]." Last week, despite the Press's plea that the contempt citation was an infringement of "freedom of the press," Judge Silbert found the three Press staffers guilty, fined them a total of $700 and costs. While the Press prepared to appeal, the paper said...
...Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the right of a preacher in his pulpit to criticize a judge on his bench. It unanimously reversed the conviction of Pastor Ross Allen Weston of the Arlington Unitarian Church for contempt of court after he had preached a sermon accusing a judge of using his office, for political purposes...
...Cleveland. Judge Joseph H. Silbert cited three Cleveland Press staffers for contempt of court. In defiance of Judge Silbert's order, the Scripps-Howard Press had taken and printed a picture of an arraignment. The photograph showed ex-Judge Nelson Brewer pleading not guilty to embezzlement charges brought against him by a grand jury after the Press had exposed Brewer's alleged misdeeds and forced his resignation from the bench (TIME, Aug. 3). In a front-page editorial, the Press defended its staffers for upholding the "right of the people to know." But President H. Walter Stewart...
...Europe." This was calculated to make some propaganda hay among Germany's fearful neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs and the French. But would it have much effect on the German elections? Probably not, for if there is one thing all West Germans are united on, it is a contempt for Messrs. Grotewohl, Ulbricht...
...Every one of us, every day, meets countrymen, often in the highest places of the national hierarchy, who treat with a grand contempt, even anger, any uneasiness that one expresses on the French situation. They repeat that this uneasiness is nothing but the result of Communist propaganda, and that one should have the courage to say, in all good conscience, 'Things aren't going so badly...