Word: contempts
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...whizzed him out of sight. Martyr or Fool? Too dazed to move for a few minutes, the committee finally pulled itself together, had the room cleared, went into executive session. Hour later it was announced that the committeemen had voted unanimously to recommend that Dr. Townsend be cited for contempt of the House. After the House had convened next day, however, it was announced that action had been postponed. Torn between the alternatives of asking the House to make a martyr of Dr. Townsend or of letting Dr. Townsend make a fool of Congress, the hapless committeemen floundered through...
Almost everyone but the jury which frees her seems to believe that Mrs. Ames (Madeleine Carroll) shot and killed her rich husband. An assistant district attorney (George Brent) is so convinced of it that he denounces the jury, gets jailed for contempt of court. Mrs. Ames's dowager mother-in-law (Beulah Bondi) makes the murder a pretext for taking possession of Mrs. Ames's small son. Acting from thoroughly scrambled motives, the assistant district attorney performs some sleuthing while the not particularly bright young widow makes a mess of acting as her own counsel in a court...
...grew up to be a fish peddler. He went to the University of Washington Law School, got himself elected president of the student body, behaved so obstreperously that fellow students clipped his pate, dumped him in Lake Washington. Marion Zioncheck began his legal career by being fined $25 for contempt of court after calling a witness a "scab." Later he successfully defended his mother on kidnapping charges. In 1932 Lawyer Zioncheck persuaded the Democratic voters of Washington's First Congressional District to send him to Washington. By last week Representative Zioncheck had piled up such a record of outlandish...
...taking a recess too," shouted Zioncheck, breaking for the door. Policemen collared him, threw him into the pen. Judge Casey, reappearing, slapped on fines of $25 for speeding, $20 for contempt of court. For two hours Representative Zioncheck posed for photographers making faces, clambering up the bars, poking out his hat to beg for money for his fines. Loudly he declared that he would not pay a cent. Loudly he demanded that Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding...
...search for her King Charles's head. Author Stern shakes several likely candidates out of her grab-bag. One is a childhood desire to be included in the glorious goings-on of a large but mythical family of Rectory Children. One is a sturdy feminine contempt for what she dubs the Peter Pannery of the typical Englishman. And one is the Dreyfus Case, which fascinated her not only because she was a Jew but because she was a young contemporary of its long-drawn-out events. When the three lines of her association-autobiography have crossed, the King Charles...