Word: contempts
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...blundering; he had, they told favored newsmen, triggered a trap which they had set for Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The plan had been to make unpopular Dean Acheson the chief G.O.P. target, ask him pointed questions about his discussions with the President, then try to cite him for contempt if he refused to answer. Even if they couldn't make the charge stick, Republicans hoped to keep the case in the courts and before the public until...
...small native village-a quarrel between a corporal in the native auxiliary troops and an ex-trooper named Amou N'Talit Tademalit, a Berber tribesman who, some said, was in love with the corporal's wife. Whatever the cause, the corporal had decided to show his contempt for Amou by treating him like a servant. Riding proudly up to his house that day, he had flung his reins at the Berber and ordered him to hold the horse while he dismounted. He had also handed Amou his rifle to hold (although the Berbers, a proud, sensitive people...
...Lobbying felt that the C.C.G.'s activities are a clear case of attempting to influence legislation and demanded that Rumely reveal his financial backers in accordance with the law. Rumely refused, claiming that the C.C.G. was merely "educating the public to uphold Constitutional principles." Subsequently he was indicted for contempt of Congress; but the supporters of the Committee for Constitutional Government remain in hiding...
...longer his own counsel. His new advocate: the Kefauver Committee's Rudolph Halley. Nevertheless Judge Knox ruled that news sources are not privileged; the judge would decide later whether Lyons' items are relevant. If so, Lyons will have to name his sources or be charged with contempt...
...played by Konstantin Shayne) as one of its characters, bolsters its footage with newsreel shots of the uproar and street brawls the Reds organized during 1949's Manhattan trial of eleven U.S. Communist leaders. The personal torment of the picture's hero (Frank Lovejoy), suffering the bitter contempt of his anti-Communist son and brothers without being able to let them in on his masquerade, gives the picture a core of human appeal...