Word: contempts
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...were not for the personalities and methods of the investigators themselves-Velde, Jenner and McCarthy-the shadow might not loom so large. But the nation's teachers feel they have little reason to trust their accusers, and their attitudes towards the investigators range from resentment to contempt. "For the most part," says Harvard's Mark DeWolfe Howe, "a committee ascertains in a closed hearing the facts it needs to know. Following that, it proceeds to conduct an open meeting, with the realization that the people who kept silent will keep silent and suffer public disgrace." They are, adds...
...doubt that committee members are wholly disinterested patriots. Their desire to cash in with television and publicity makes them suspect." Ciardi said that if he were questioned, he would reply, "I refuse to answer, not on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment, but because I believe this committee is contemptible, and I am bound as a citizen of the United States to hold it in contempt...
Lincoln's charge is that a report which the Medical Society made in March, 1952, was "a false and malicious libel" that held him up to contempt and ridicule. Lincoln is a former member of the Society. The organization said last March that it had requested his resignation...
...declared that he is out to get me . . ." Now, now, clucked McCarthy, hadn't his testimony kept Browder out of jail in 1951 ? Yes, said Browder, but McCarthy did that only because it served his own interests. Chairman Joe, who in 1951 testified that Browder was not in contempt of the anti-McCarthy Tydings committee, replied that he had done it to serve justice. Said he evenly: "May I say that I have no admiration for you, Mr. Browder." Retorted Browder: "Senator, that is quite mutual...
...Mother-in-Law LaCroix, took baby Lynette back to Amarillo, where she is still cared for by Bob's mother. Bob went to Massachusetts, where Probate Judge Harry Stone, who had given custody of the child to Lucille in a divorce action, sentenced Bob to nine months for contempt because he refused to bring Lynette back from Texas. Since then, Judge Stone has resentenced him four times, as each term expired...