Word: penal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warned that business will not be able to employ all of the adolescent population and suggested education as an alternative to employment. We cannot transport the young people to penal colonies "however gratifying that might...
...single mispronounced word and with few hesitations the Speech from the Throne, thus opened the first Parliament of the new reign. The 18-minute speech, composed as usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges to unjam the divorce courts; publicize the health services; expand housing; regulate the working conditions of truck drivers and raise the efficiency of the United Kingdom's fire brigades...
...filling the pen but the inkwell is always filled. . . . In the Papal State the projection of films is prohibited. The Pope never sees even the most innocuous news reel. . . . Although there is no crime in Vatican City there is a jail. . . . No sentence has yet been passed on any penal case. . . . No better conditions exist for workers than those prevailing in the service of the Pope. . . . They have enough to spend on simple amusements. They are secure and happy in the highest sense of social reform. . . . There can never be a breath of scandal. Family and social probity...
Said Mrs. Macfadden's attorney, Gustave B. Garfield: "We intend swearing out criminal warrants against Mr. Oursler and Miss Lambert. Producing a document in writing purporting to come from another person for the purpose of damaging his or her reputation is a felony under New York penal...
...present Envoy of Albania to Bulgaria, and is happily living with her husband at the Albanian Legation in Sofia. For those people who are willing to learn something, and the breed is not yet quite extinct, I will add that bigamy is in Albanian law a felony punishable by penal servitude...