Word: punish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill offered by Senator Walsh to punish for contempt of court persons who leave the country and refuse to return to testify in court by confiscating their property to a value not greater than $100,000,* without debate or record vote. (Bill went to the House...
...favored position of maniacs legally puts a premium on insanity, which forces the shrewdest wrongdoers to put in a plea of lunacy if they are to expect clemency. Modern nations do all in their power to reclaim the hopelessly insane criminal and at the same time punish the sane man of perverted ideals as rigorously as the prevailing idea of justice permits...
...third and last act Brunnhilde comes to her sister Valkyries closely pursued by Wotan who must punish her for treason. Sieglinde is saved by the Valkyries but Wotan causes eternal magical flames to burn around Brunnhilde who is cast out of Valhalla. The flames are to protect until a warrier, strong enough to overpower them, shall come to marry...
...Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment or a $10,000 to $100,000 fine or both. Onlookers detected not flask, nor glass, nor scent of liquor at the banquet...
...Protocol, expressed a strong desire to see it revived, and added, "no project for the maintenance of Peace will be effective unless it have root in the League." 2) Mr. Austen Chamberlain then again torpedoed the Protocol, in the name of Britain, declaring that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes" and preferred an extra-League Security Treaty, for the present. 3) He was answered by M. Paul Boncour, for France, on whom the dead Viviani's mantle as an orator...