Word: punish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dangers in expelling Powell, Representative Van Deerlin (D.-Cal.) has recommended that the House exclude him instead. This action would deprive the New York Congressman of his vote but would allow him to keep his seat. Such a measure is attractive but it is also unjust. It would punish Powell's district for the offenses of its congressman, leaving Harlem without a voice in the House for an indefinite period of time...
This leaves Powell's colleagues with only one method of disciplining the Harlem Democrat: depriving him of his chairmanship of the House Education and Labor Committee. But this alternative also has serious disadvantages. In effect, it would punish Powell for his abuse of his powers as chairman of a committee, not for his defiance of the courts which is clearly his most serious offense. What is more, Powell's practices as a committee chairman have been no different in principle from those of many of the other major committee heads in the House. Singling out Powell for punishment would, therefore...
...Washington, a group of 100 Negro clergymen declared that efforts to punish Powell had stirred a "sense of outrage" among the nation's 22 million Negroes, demanded "a thorough investigation of the practices of all committee chairmen and their members...
Five Red Demands. When Brigadier General Jose Nobre de Carvalho took over late last month as Macao's new Portuguese-appointed Governor, Macao's Communists demanded that the government 1) acknowledge responsibility for the Taipa incident, 2) punish a deputy police chief involved, 3) publicly burn all police truncheons, 4) promise an end to "attacks" on Macao's Chinese, and 5) compensate families of workmen injured during the incident itself...
...most politically potent argument for a volunteer army is a slogan: "The soldier is worth his hire." Friedman says that it is plainly unfair to punish a man by drafting him and then punish him a second time by forcing him to accept substandard wage. Again he argues from history: "Was not one of the great gains in the progress of civilization the conversion of taxes in kind to taxes in money? The elimination of the power of the noble or the sovereign to exact compulsory servitude...