Word: metes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puzzled officers had been sitting as a court-martial in Tokyo since July 25. Their thankless job was to mete out justice to eleven Army cadets, confessed conspirators in the assassination of "Pacifist" Premier Ki Inukai (TIME, May 23, 1932). Not only for this are the cadets national heroes. They also plotted a coup to tear up the Japanese constitution, oust "grafting politicians" and restore "direct Imperial rule." Clearly the judges, who might themselves be assassinated should their sentence prove too harsh, faced a delicate predicament. Reluctant to take the responsibility of making up their own minds they turned with...
...British engineers-together with twelve Russian defendants, in which neither Soviet nor world Press took much interest-went on trial for their lives charged with espionage and sabotage (TIME, March 27 et seq.). If these men were found innocent millions of Russians might think the Soviet was afraid to mete out the same justice to the subjects of Imperial Britain as it does to its own Comrades. If they were found guilty, King George V had just put his signature to a bill empowering his Government to declare a complete embargo of Russian goods and cut off from Russia some...
...turn. Last week in the Almendares district of Havana two U. S. tourists discovered the body of Policeman Francisco Rafael Cepero with his ear cut off, his throat slashed, a bullet in his temple. Tied to his right wrist was a blue tag inscribed: "The ABC will mete out this death to all long-tongued persons." Long-tongued Cepero's crime had been to shout a warning to Chief of Police Major Arsenic Ortiz (who got his present job after being accused with two others of 44 political murders in Santiago) when three young men were attempting to assassinate...
When prisoners showed the jury how the Sunbeam neck chain and stocks were applied, Mrs. Julia Maillefert, the dead boy's mother, nearly fainted. Rallying, said she: "I am going to sit through the trial to see what kind of justice they mete out down here. I wish they'd just get one man from New Jersey on the jury...
...would permit, Judge F. Dickinson Letts declared before rendering his judgment: "This is an extremely strange case, unusual in all its aspects. . . . The evidence is so conclusive and so revolting to any sense of justice entertained by ordinary persons with respect to the care of children that I must mete out the full measure of punishment prescribed...