Word: punish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesse Jones guessed again: "Probably if the directors of the C. & 0. were as interested in protecting the Erie as they are the Alleghany Corp.. which receives a large part of C. & 0. dividends, their course might be different.'' Admitting that he would "not punish" the Erie if it were "independent," and questioning the right of C. & O. to control the Erie without helping it financially, he wound up: "It is a matter for the court-the juvenile court...
...undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here, and the Department is justified in taking every possible step to apprehend the guilty parties and to punish them severly. In short, funny ha-ha is welcome, necessary; funny peculiar is taboo...
...quez, who modestly admitted "the duties are too heavy for my shoulders." Showing no signs of this weakness, he dissolved the National Assembly, announced that he had assumed "supreme power . . . in the name of the National Army." At week's end he inaugurated a "national political purge" to punish those who have "abused power." This led observers to think that the military junta had sacrificed ousted President Páez as a scapegoat to divert attention from Ecuador's internal unrest...
...minded little group of men led by an M. P. from Galway, Richard ("Humanity") Martin, gathered at Old Slaughter's Coffee House in London, and formed the first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the same year they induced Parliament to pass a bill to punish persons who ''wantonly and cruelly" beat or ill-treated horses, mares, geldings, mules, asses, oxen, cows, heifers, steers, sheep...
...League of Nations, and she had her fingers badly burnt, because the nations of the world did not have the moral courage or intelligent foresight to see that Britain's cause would ultimately be their's. It seems reasonably sure that no nation will again try to punish an agressor, unless the United States is prepared to lend all of her power and prestige to "quarantine" the nation that has been judged the agressor...