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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberal folklore regarded Chinese Communists as humanitarians who would rather re-educate criminals than punish them. Reports of purges inside China under the new Red penal code have brushed away most vestiges of this belief. Shih Liang, Red China's woman Minister of Justice, in recent instructions to her courts finally laid it to rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Neither Too Young Nor Too Old | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Second Period--Scoring: none, Penal- ties: McNamara (N) (handling puck), 5:00; Marshall (H) (cross-checking), 8:09; O'Brien (H) (board-checking), 8:49; Burke (H) (interference), 10:13; Burke (H) (charging), 14:12; McNamara (N) (checking in center zone), 16:42; LeFort (N) (charging), 18:46. Saves: Corning, 3; Picard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball, Hockey Teams Lose to Columbia, Northeastern | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

Preparation was the point most strongly stressed. He cited the time he was caught short and had to spend an hour and a half reading the penal code an Homicide to the jury. "It was the most fluent, deliberate rendition that thing had ever received," commented Geisler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trial Lawyer Tells Audience to 'Let The Jury Decide' | 12/12/1950 | See Source »

Governor James E. Folsom, in no kissin' mood, sued the Reader's Digest for $1,000,000 on the ground that an article on the Alabama penal system called "Devil's Island, U.S.A." was a libel on him and "on the people of Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...spite of a federal law making hoarding a penal offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME News Quiz | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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