Word: contempts
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Judge Goldsborough wiped his glasses, hooked them back on his nose, rocked ruminatively back & forth on his red-leather chair. Then he ruled that Lewis and the United Mine Workers, notwithstanding, were in contempt of court. Lewis would return the next day, the judge ordered, to receive his sentence...
...Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad; it was gradually borne in on him that Harry Truman might be calling his bluff. Eaton was anxious to bring about negotiations; Moses was willing-on his terms. But Harry Truman was adamant. And now the impossible had happened. Lewis had actually been convicted of contempt. Horatius heard the tramp of the Tuscans' feet...
John Lewis, who had challenged that sovereign power by defying it, would have to stand trial for contempt...
John's face was a grey, unsmiling mask. This week, he silently clumped back into Goldsborough's small, dimly lit court. The trial for contempt was little more than an unloading of technicalities. It was pretty clear that Judge Goldsborough's mind was made up. This week he found John Lewis guilty of contempt. Lewis' legal position now was really hot. But his bargaining position got better every day as the coal mines remained empty...
Formality v. Courtesy. Schlesinger agrees with Emerson that "defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions," and holds that today's abhorrence of snobbish formalities should not extend to contempt for simple courtesy. He finds promise of improved manners not so much in private homes as in public dealings: 1) in the businessman's realization that courtesy increases dividends; 2) in the wartime effort to make the G.I. respect the forms of citizens of other nations; 3) in the basically polite approach of the Good Neighbor Policy...