Word: punish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...18th Amendment it has been held with practical unanimity that . . . the purchaser of intoxicating liquor, the sale of which was prohibited, was guilty of no offense. . . . Probably it was thought more important to preserve the complete freedom of the purchaser to testify against the seller than to punish him. . . . It is fair to assume that Congress, when it came to pass the Prohibition Act, knew this history and, acting in the light of it, deliberately and designedly omitted to impose upon the purchaser of liquor for beverage purposes any criminal liability...
...Carolina against Wet Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith. A bitter hater, he still flaunts his opposition to the Tammany wing of his party, balks at reconciliation. This year he is a candidate for reelection to the Senate. Against him in the June primary are younger men and forces who would punish him for his bolt. At stake is his State leadership. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: though age has blunted his legislative effectiveness, he remains a potent Democratic force in the Senate. He commands Republican respect and attention, if not votes. His mind is clear and active. Unlike his politics...
...Compensatory damages for actual loss of business, employment, etc., resulting from the defamatory publication. Punitive damages: additional recovery, on grounds of malice or gross negligence, to punish the offender and render mental and moral satisfaction to the victim.† The 6? verdict, awarded where the plaintiff's technical rights have been violated without considerable material damage, has precedent in old English law. A usual award in such cases was threepence, the smallest silver coin, U.S. money equivalent...
...Germany, nothing of helping Germany to carry out the difficult task prescribed in the Young Plan. ... I am even now willing to accept the Young Plan in the Young spirit. What is now before the Reichstag I call the Hague Protocol. Sanctions [the right of the Creditor Powers to punish Germany if she defaults] have been introduced again. . . . Germany won't be a free agent after all, although Young . . . wanted this. Sanctions have nothing in common with the Young Plan as conceived in Paris...
Bulgy and bald as a well-stuffed wurst is Herr Otto Schultzenstein, prosperous Berlin shoe factory official. Last week he successfully defied German efforts to punish him for possessing two wives...