Word: punished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price of sugar still advances. Meanwhile the four Federal investigations of the sugar scandal are proceeding slowly and will not be able to publish their findings and punish the guilty until after the bull market has reaped enormous profits for the speculators. It is a case of locking the stable door too late, but it may serve to prevent similar gouges in the future...
...traveling court set up on an automobile is now visiting markets in Berlin to punish profiteers. Plain clothes policemen patrol the market place, and on finding that an excessive price has been charged, or on hearing any complaint they immediately arrest the offending dealer and take him before the court. Justice is meted out on the spot, and the result is that prices have been considerably reduced. The city officials hope that these courts will end the food riots which have resulted from the exorbitant demands made by the merchants...
William Jennings Bryan, speaking before the West Virginia State Legislature in a campaign for anti-evolution legislation similar to that recently defeated in Kentucky, said: "You need not punish these teachers of evolution. Men who believe they have the blood of brutes in their veins will never be martyrs for any cause." In a dispassionate and authoritative article in the New Republic, Vernon Kellogg, biologist, and Permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, summarized the present status of organic evolution. Quotations: "I do not know of a single living biologist of high repute-and I do not determine repute...
...spring up in America, and gain power enough to take the law into its own hands, there must be something wrong with the law. Like the Vigilantes which existed in the days of '49, this organization will only die when the state is strong enough to crush it, and punish all crimes as well...
...last an agency has sprung up to prevent as well as punish this fraudulent promotion. Urged on by men like Governor Morse of the First District Federal Reserve Bank and startled by the statement of the Senate Committee on Reconstruction that the annual losses through worthless schemes can be conservatively estimated at more than a billion dollars a year, bankers established the Better Business Bureau last summer. Working through branches located all over the United States, this bureau has already exposed a number of "blind pools" which have absorbed the savings of thousands of ignorant and gullible persons. A product...