Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made judge in a Shanghai court. He was lenient to a fault. One day he freed a coolie accused of having stolen four ducks because evidence was insufficient-and the next day found four ducks missing from his own duck pond...
Like British-owned India, The Netherlands Indies is divided into territory governed by native rulers in treaty relations with the Dutch, and territory governed directly. The Dutch authorities are not as lenient with the many sultans and princes whom they oversee, however, as the British. They strictly limit the native rulers' allowances and make sure that a part of every little State's income finds its way into education, hygiene, public works. Of the entire population, less than 10,000,000 are States' subjects; the remaining 50,000,000 are ruled direct from Batavia...
...large but not lubberly. At Yale he worked hard, though he complained about it. As a young lawyer he was sound if seldom successful. As an Ohio Circuit Judge between 1892 and 1900 he was happier, and in one anti-trust decision soberly took issue with a more lenient Supreme Court. As president of the Philippine Commission, he replaced military rule with the rule of law, achieved one of those enormous successes that make diffident men more diffident. Time after time his enthusiastic friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, invited "Dear Will" to return to Washington, finally got him back...
...Less lenient was the treatment given Waterman Steamship Corp.'s Warrior, carrying pebble phosphate and rosin out of Mobile, Ala. Bought & paid for by Germany, the phosphate (5,900 tons) and rosin (600 barrels) were confiscated by Britain, ordered sold at public auction. From the Nieuw Amsterdam were taken two German spies (one of whom attempted suicide), 34 German stewards and sailors. The Dutch Government was allowed to take title to 1,500 tons of copper aboard...
...immunity to anyone who would come forward and collect his $25,000. Stories flew last week that: 1) Lepke was dead, murdered by pals who considered his fame undesirable publicity; 2) Lepke was bargaining between Messrs. Dewey & Cahill, offering to surrender to the one who offered him the most lenient terms; 3) Lepke was right up Tom Dewey's sleeve, to be popped out at a strategic moment...