Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hindenburg, "I certainly do!" Besides Josef Stalin the Society of For mer Political Prisoners (all of whom must have served bona fide Tsarist prison terms for revolutionary offenses) counts some 3,000 members, estimates that they spent collectively "almost 16,000 years in chains and 5.000 years undergoing other punish ment...
When they had looked at a cartoon in Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts and read an article in Cologne's Catholic Volkzeitung the new German Cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen made formal demand upon the Prussian Government to punish both papers by suspending them for five days...
Socialist Severing soon announced that the Socialist cartoon was not sufficiently "coarse" to merit suppression, opined that the Catholic article was "inspired by purely patriotic motives." He flatly refused to punish either newspaper, rushed the dispute to the German Supreme Court at Leipzig. The Court at once decided that the Socialist Vorwärts must be suspended for five days, pondered whether to suspend the Catholic Volkzeitung...
...normal individuals. There "must be something about those individuals (within them) that leads them to solve their problems by means of self-inflicted death?something besides despair, financial straits, failing health. . . ." The "death drive," as he interprets it, is very often the result of an unconscious desire to punish oneself severely...
...Chinese civilians the Japanese bluejackets wounded ten with bayonet thrusts, knocked down eleven more with blows from their rifle butts and climbed back over the high, spiked gate as the 31st U. S. Infantry rushed upon the scene. Tersely a Japanese spokesman explained that the bluejackets had acted to "punish" Chinese who had been making faces, hurling stones and obscenities from the supposed safety of the International Settlement...