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Jones stubbornly refused to buy. Ex-Governor Smith, he recalls, came to see him "two or three times during the negotiations and indicated clearly his real feeling toward the President-which was that of utter contempt. He made it plain he had gone to the White House . . . only to help his friend Mr. Raskob [onetime chairman of the Democratic National Committee] get some of his money out of a losing venture...
Labor Commissioner John J. Del Monte refused yesterday to hand over to the State Senate a report he received from Stanley P. Teele, professor of Business Administration, and now faces a possible Senate contempt citation...
Senator Charles J. Innes, Republican floor leader, said that Del Monte and members of his commission were "clearly in contempt." Del Monte replied that his commission was set up under a provision that prohibits the legislative branch from interfering with the Department of Labour and Industry--under which his commission comes...
...have the gentleman sit down on the stand, by order of the court. I will chain you to the stand with handcuffs. You cannot thwart the dignity of the court in that fashion . . . Your silence will be deemed a refusal to answer and the court finds you guilty of contempt...
Field, millionaire ball bondsman for several of the convicted Communist leaders, is currently serving a contempt sentence for refusing to reveal who supplied the money which the American Civil Rights Congress used to ball out the Red leaders, four of whom are now fugitives. Field was a trustee of the Congress...