Word: contempts
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...worst fears, they had not gone overboard for the cause of labor. They had, for example, upheld the right of the separate states to pass laws against closed shops; they had sternly and righteously reminded John L. Lewis of the majesty of the law, upheld his conviction for contempt...
...right of a congressional committee to demand that witnesses say whether they are Communists was upheld this week by the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. The decision approved the contempt convictions of Screen Writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo, who had been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for refusing to answer the question solely on the ground that the committee had no right...
When a handy man confessed to murdering an eleven-year-old girl last July, most of the city's radio stations decided to defy Rule 904; they broadcast his confession. Convicted of contempt of court, three stations and a commentator were fined from $100 to $500 (TIME, Feb. 7). They appealed the decision, contending that it was a threat to free speech and a free press. Last week, at Annapolis, the Maryland Court of Appeals agreed; it threw out Baltimore's gag rule as "illogical." Declared the court: "We are well aware of the high motives [involved...
...jury from the room. U.S. marshals (some of them rushed down from the Hiss-Chambers trial two floors above) closed in between the defense and Judge Medina, between the defense and the spectators. Said Judge Medina to Gates: "I now adjudge you guilty of a willful and deliberate contempt . . . You are to be remanded until you have purged yourself of contempt for a period not to exceed 30 days." That meant that, instead of being free on bail, Gates would be lodged in jail after each day's session...
Chaste Miracle. After that, Stanley Banks must have withered fast, because his family scarcely noticed him at all for the next few months. He was always somewhere around, though-in his wife's way, under the florist's feet, beneath the caterer's contempt-with his hand in his wallet and his heart in his mouth...