Word: penal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partial solution to Massachusetts' current prison woes is in the offing. Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, is working on a bill to reform the State's outmoded penal system. The Law School's Legislative Research Bureau is drafting the proposed measure, which will go before the legislature sometime next year...
...lead of the national administration in adopting a policy of massive retaliation to deal with the forces that threaten us. Faced with the recent uprising in Charlestown, they did not attempt simply to put more men under arms than the enemy could muster. Realizing that the salaries paid penal officers could never compete with the quick riches to be won by a criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks in Massachusetts' great new highway...
...Pius XII, containing 86 papal pronouncements made between March 1953 and March 1954. In the 15 years of his pontificate, the Pope has made almost 1,000 pronouncements on such varied subjects as doctrine, the social order, music, art, journalism, education, sport, agriculture, war victims, commerce, microbiology, navigation, wine, penal law, silk, tourism, psychoanalysis, neuropsychiatry, army doctors, the poor...
...onetime tournament player (until ulcers forced him to relax) and something of an expert in surveying, hydraulics, horticulture and agronomy, Landscape Architect Jones has quietly masterminded a revolution in the design of golf courses. Before he came on the scene, most American courses were built on the "penal principle." Hazards were everywhere, to punish any player whose shots strayed from the straight & narrow...
Strengthen the Middle. What is the defense against slow penetration? Reporter Barzini has no magic formulas. He believes in reinforcing the"state authority" and in"methodic, inflexible application of the penal and civil codes, the prosecution of illegal practices, of corruption and indulgence in our public life, the moderni- zation of bureaucracy, all that reassures a confused public that there is protection under the law, that there is no need to seek protection from the Communists...