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Gordon Kahn is a screenwriter who has come to the defense of his colleagues who were cited for contempt of Congress last fall after they had refused to answer specific questions put to them by the Thomas Committee. In his book, The Case Against Hollywood, Kahn lets his resentment get the better of him. His argument suffers the consequences...
...pressed the charge of civil contempt.* Lewis could be jailed or fined on the civil charge at the discretion of the court. Morison noted that 85% of the miners had gone back. His recommendation: the civil penalty should be postponed. This meant that Lewis would still be on the hook. The court could haul him in and fine him at the drop of a miner's pick. Judge Goldsborough thought the suggestion "eminently proper" and adjourned the case...
...prepared the Government's case-bouncy, 40-year-old Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison. Early in the week, Morison had persuaded Goldsborough to slap a $1,400,000 fine on Lewis' union and a $20,000 fine on Lewis himself for criminal contempt of court. Shaken by that and the threat of more to come, Lewis had wired his union chiefs: "I do hope [the miners] immediately return to work." To make sure they did, Morison had got an 80-day injunction prohibiting Lewis from ordering another walkout. Now Morison was ready to put the gaff...
...difference between criminal and civil contempt is a hairline visible only to lawyers...
...civic conscience of Boston, like a goboon in a Scollay Square saloon, is a battered vessel. It was severely dented last November when Mayor James Michael Curley, a man with a mountainous contempt for public opinion, returned happily to his $20,000-a-year job after spending five months in prison for mail fraud. Since then, Boss Curley has given the vessel a few more kicks...