Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the delicacy of the specialist's job, however, SEC has left both the establishment of specific rules for specialists and the policing of them to the stock exchanges; the commission itself can neither change the specialist rules made by the exchanges nor punish offenders with anything more than an order for their expulsion from the exchange...
This view, held by many liberal Congressmen, is misguided. Investigations are properly conducted to gather evidence, not to punish. An investigation by Congress or the Attorney General should not be a Great Crusade. It should, to use a liberal cliche, refrain from "exposure for exposure's sake...
...begin our lives by punishing our siblings. In adolescence we punish our parents. When we marry we continue the punishment by other means, till death do us part...
...fact that this was not done by crooks and knaves. In that case, we could have a campaign with a slogan "throw the rascals out" and set up for a year or two a reform Administration. Nor have I had much patience with those who would like to punish [Judge] Thayer by impeachment or any other process. Unfrock him and his judicial robes would fall upon a pair of shoulders not different by the thickness of a fingernail...
...little education did for me what a reform school, Sing Sing, a more recent 25 to 50 year sentence, and all the punishment this list implies failed to do. I am still a convict, but I am no longer a criminal. My faith in education is not based simply on its rehabilitation effect on me. I have watched its effect on others--not many I will admit, because few prisoners have the desire to learn, encouragement is scarce, and facilities are poor. But of those who do improve their education, none return. If the proponents of punishment are sincere...