Word: punish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continue to place a premium on such action, and take no steps to punish it, future transatlantic planes will have to be built with special cabins for stowaways, and Congress will have to establish some new honor to confer on such people. On the other hand if Schrieber received a jail sentence or a heavy fine, which would offset the thousands he is making now, the danger of the recurrence of such actions would be greatly lessened...
...admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting out to persecute any newspaper...
...McCormick described the Minnesota law as "tyrannical, despotic, un-American and offensive," declared that it would place the press in a position where it could be silenced by any corrupt administration. Hitherto the courts have had power to punish libelous publications, but this law gives them power to prevent publications entirely. What is more it enables a whole file of a paper, extending over a period of three months or more, to be placed in evidence, and permits stopping publication entirely unless the publisher can prove every statement that has appeared in all that time?a thing practically impossible...
...drawn by Senator Jones of Washington, to increase the penalties for Volstead violations. Congress wanted to punish habitual violators more memorably than at present, and a peculiar phrase was inserted in the act instructing judges to "discriminate." The rest of the act was also peculiar, because...
...remedy offered by Utah's Senator William H. King, who has ascertained that 85% of speculation is made on margins, and who believes therefore that marginal trading should be abolished. Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas went charging off into the commodity mar kets and proposed to punish trading in cotton and grain futures with fines and imprisonment...