Word: mulcted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a glimpse of the hijacking of motorists in Mississippi is disclosed in the letter of James Blackton (TIME, April 19, p. 4). That State probably has more ways to mulct the motorist than any other...
...Savannah, Captain Carter's successor began an investigation resulting in charges that he had conspired with the harbor contractors to mulct the Government, by shoddy work and extravagant prices, of some $1,800,000. Summoned from London, Captain Carter was court-martialed, cashiered from the Army, sentenced to five years at hard labor in Leavenworth Prison, fined $5,000. His crime & sentence were ordered published in his home town (Patriot, Ohio) newspapers for one year. After 17 months President McKinley approved his sentence and he was clapped into Leavenworth. The contractors were also sentenced to prison, fined...
...proper realistic point of view, but the whole popular pacifist balloon of ballyhoo needs more pricking than that. The current tendency to make black-bearded goats out of the armament maker appears to have anesthetized the national press; the mouthed righteousness of the political idealists in their scramble to mulct credit from the cause of peace has dangerously perverted a constructive situation into a heydey for the Hearsts. Internationalism may or may not be born to blush unseen in this ugly age: no question but it's a worthwhile goal. Yet to seek it open-mouthed, like a herd...
...What speculation has been done has been carried on largely by Government bureaucrats using the taxpayers' money. If men seeking a profit had been using those millions, a real benefit might have accrued to the nation." Foes of stock speculation claim that a few insiders deceive and mulct the public. Foes of commodity speculation claim that in bull markets the price of foods is lifted beyond reason, while in bear markets the farmers are cheated of their just returns. Professional speculators in all cases insist that they are needed to maintain an active market, necessary in stocks for investors...
...found a trunk full of correspondence from women all over the U. S. Buried near his garage was found another of his correspondents, Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher of Park Ridge, Ill., together with the bodies of her three children. Mr. Powers' system : mail-order them, marry them, mulct them, murder them (TIME, Sept...