Word: penal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, with what they considered irrefutable logic, argued the entire Communist contingent in the Reichstag Committee for revision of the Penal Code last week. Refusing to be convinced, the Committee voted after hot debate a resolution approving chastity for surplus females, denying that they have any "right" to maternity...
Saturday morning Everett W. Duvall, Superintendent of the Children's Community Center at New Haven, will lead a round table discussion on "Juvenile Delinquency." That afternoon George Kirchwey of the New York School of Social Work, will talk on "Crime and Penal Reform...
Fortunately, during the Coronation period, Abyssinia is trying to appear as civilized as possible. The Duke of Gloucester would certainly blanch at any penal amputation. Therefore Colonel Julian was allowed to scuttle out of Abyssinia-a man without a country. Wrote one of his white admirers, Colyumist Beverly Smith of Manhattan's Herald Tribune: "Julian [on Sept. i, the day he sailed for Abyssinia] was one of the happiest men I have ever seen. His whole heart was set on the glory of the imperial Abyssinian Coronation . . . when he was to direct the aerial maneuvers from the new imperial...
...objects from aircraft (maximum penalty: $500 fine and revocation of license). Last week the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce considered the problem "unofficially" presented to it by a recent conference of prison wardens at Columbus, Ohio. Possible solution: creation of "safe zones," barred to aircraft, over all penal institutions...
...providing thrillers more bizarre and stories less credible than my play On The Spot." When a young London shoemaker, one Arthur Cox, was hailed into Old Bailey for shooting at two bobbies (whom he missed), the Magistrate showed himself Legs-conscious. After sentencing Shoemaker Cox to ten years' penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment...