Word: punish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian accounts the long night of Nov. 29-30 was a lively one along the Russo-Finnish border west and north of Lake Laatokka. At 2 a. m., at 3:15 a. m., again at 4 a. m., Finnish soldiers "invaded" Russia (according to Moscow). To punish this "aggression," the Red Army, signaled by green rockets, started rolling...
WASHINGTON--The Justice Department tonight rejected organized labor's claim of immunity from prosecution under the anti-monopoly laws. It warned that it will punish unions attempting to prevent private industry from using improved production methods designed to bring cheaper and better goods to the buying public...
...Hoover (for his measures to prevent industrial espionage), said the Department of Justice would be right behind him in the hunt on condemners of U. S. laws. Mr. Murphy also thanked the Dies Committee for its exposures, assured its Chairman Martin Dies that un-American wrongdoers will be remorselessly punished. But, said the Attorney General, his Department will act only on good evidence, will punish no citizen for his opinions-in short, will hunt no witches...
...Swatow, the Japanese Consulate angrily demanded that British Consul H. D. Bryan "admit that British sailors [from the destroyer Tenedos] were involved in a riot" in which a Chinese was wounded, apologize, punish the sailors, guarantee that it would not happen again. The "riot" was a crowd of Chinese unenthusiastically shouting anti-British slogans and throwing stones at the British Consulate. Great Britain apologized...
Revision was the treatment recommended by Elder Statesman Stimson. He urged the Senators to make the President identify "aggressors," then punish them by embargoes and other economic sanctions. British statesmen of today, well knowing their nation is not soon likely to seem "aggressive" in U. S. eyes, and with trouble much nearer home than Manchuria, rejoiced to read these consistent Stimsonisms, which were delivered with more force and sparkle than Colonel Stimson exhibited while in office...