Word: pennsylvania
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...Hammett and co-captain Dave Poor skippered the Crimson effort at the Ivy Leagues on the Schuykill River at the University of Pennsylvania. Harold Clark and Lora Fleming were crew...
Last week the Club reversed its position. At a three-day meeting in Philadelphia sponsored mainly by the First Pennsylvania Corp., a leading bank, speaker after speaker came out for more growth. Why? The Club's founder, Italian Industrialist Aurelio Peccei, says that Limits was intended to jolt people from the comfortable idea that present growth trends could continue indefinitely. That done, he says, the Club could then seek ways to close the widening gap between rich and poor nations-inequities that, if they continue, could all too easily lead to famine, pollution and war. The Club...
...corporal punishment-the stocks or the pillory. Banishment from the community in the early colonial period was a serious penalty, for it was by no means clear that a person could survive outside the tiny settlement. Still, severe measures were not unknown. Historian Allan Nevins calculated that in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary period an average of five felons a year were executed, mostly for robbery or burglary. Because of the public expense, few felons were imprisoned...
Other reasons are less obvious but perhaps more important. As University of Pennsylvania Historian Michael Zuckerman points out, the colonies before and during the Revolution were made up of isolated communities that used a common method to achieve political consensus, mobilize for collective action, and control crime: the public manipulation of reputations and the creation of a powerful nexus of human interdependence. Majority opinion not only dominated political decision making, but controlled most public and much private conduct as well. This is why there was such frequent resort to humiliation as a penalty. Stocks, pillory, and tar and feathers were...
...granted the non-established, unofficial churches were enlarged, culminating in the passage of the First Amendment to the Constitution. The importation of slaves was forbidden in every state but Georgia and South Carolina, and the outright abolition of slavery occurred in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. In 1786 the Pennsylvania legislature reduced the number of crimes for which death was the penalty, and in 1794 it limited execution to those convicted of willful homicide...