Word: penal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the drastic sentence of the court-martial was back in Pensacola, approved by the President. Both officers were dismissed from the service. Both were sentenced to penal terms at hard labor: Brown to serve two years, Thompson one. Under guard of Marines, the disgraced officers set out for the naval prison at Portsmouth...
...thin, monastic, handsome bachelor, a Harvardman, joined the Department in 1917. Careerman Shaw has three passions: his job, his religion (he is a Catholic convert), prison reform. An amateur psychiatrist, Shaw became so knowledgeable on prison methods that the Turkish Government once used him as an unofficial adviser on penal institutions, named a hill in Imrali Island penal colony after him. He has been chief of the Near East division (1927-31), Embassy counselor at Istanbul (1930-37), Foreign Service Personnel chief since...
Twelve years ago Madre Conchita was arrested, charged with exerting an occult influence over the assassin who shot down Catholic-hounding President-elect General Don Alvaro Obregon. She was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in the grim penal colony on the Tres Marias Islands. With gentle, biblical good spirits she went to work as nurse, teacher and confidante. Her fame spread throughout her country...
...reasonable body of workable labor laws. In one it ruled that Republic Steel Corp. need not reimburse WTPA for the wages it paid to discharged and locked out Republic employes during the Little Steel strike of 1937. The ruling spanked the Labor Board for trying to make a penal statute out of the Wagner Act, which is essentially remedial...
...with utmost secrecy, behind windows covered with heavy brown paper, His Majesty's High Court of Justice concluded its trials in London's most famous criminal court, the Old Bailey. Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkov heard themselves sentenced as spies. Kent was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Anna Wolkov received ten years. Britons were surprised at the mildness of the sentences, even though one of the culprits was a citizen of a nation with which Britain wants to keep on the best of terms...