Word: contempts
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...years. Salazar was invited to come to Lisbon to straighten them out. He took a look at the parliamentary confusion and, in deep disgust, demanded a free hand with the Treasury. Refused, he caught the next train back to the sedge-lined banks of the Mondego. He expressed his contempt for Lisbon's attempts at democracy and said that "one of the greatest mistakes of the 19th Century (which created the 'citizen'-an individual isolated from the family, the class, the cultural milieu, etc.) was to suppose that English . . . democracy was . . . capable of adaptation to all European...
...from a May 16 column in which Miss Fleeson reported the start of the feud. Wrote she: "Justice Black reacted with fiery scorn to what he regarded as an open and gratuitous 'insult, a slur upon his personal and judicial honor. Nor did he bother to conceal his contempt...
...bureaucrats," the result will be a one way ticket on the inflationary joy-ride. If President Truman signs the final bill, he faces cost of living, strikes that will make him wonder if he ever knew what labor troubles really were. He will earn the embittered contempt of those who, like veterans in college, must live within a frozen income. And, more important than the hatred of the more seriously injured citizens, he will have endangered the social structure of the nation...
Then it tackled the subject of a free press. It ruled that the Miami Herald was not in contempt of court when it attacked and lampooned the Dade County Circuit Court for ducking the prosecution of county criminals. Wrote Justice Murphy: "The freedom of the press includes the right to criticize and discourage, even though the terms be vitriolic, scurrilous or erroneous...
James Vail Converse, 53, sat in a Manhattan jail. He was there for contempt of court-he had ignored a summons for a debt of $149 he owed a hospital. Onetime playboy Jimmy, onetime horseman and tennist, onetime husband of Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski's aunt, Lady Furness-he was her first of two and she was the second of his five-waited for somebody to get up $100 to bail...