Word: punished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself into a Field Marshal's uniform and ascended his throne. Japan, which was the first and, so far as the world knew until last week, the last power to recognize his puppet government (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932), sent official congratulations. The League of Nations did not dare punish Japan directly for its invasion of Manchuria, but on the strength of the Lytton report it did pass a resolution binding all League members not to recognize Manchukuo...
Viva Villa (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Pancho Villa was a Mexican cattle-thief and revolutionist who, in 1916. eluded with humiliating ease a $130,000,000 expedition under General Pershing sent to punish him for killing U. S. men and women in raids on town-. These doings and his private life was irresponsible a is might appear to make him ble as the hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation...
...have more to say if I am called before an investigating committee in Washington. . . . Whether I shall give the names of my informers I shall decide at the time. "There are lists of Congressmen who oppose the Brain Trust program-a blacklist made so that when the time for punishment comes those in power will know whom to punish. . . . "If it requires that I be a sacrifice to get the people to thinking about what is going on, I am willing to be one. . . . "Of course, the future Hitler of America is now in the background merely watching the formation...
...idea that hearings are unnecessary and that the courts cannot be permitted to review some aspects of the new laws is also extraordinary. This attitude came out now only in the refusal to grant the aviation companies a hearing but now in the proposed bill is a threat to punish them if they attempt to sue for damages in the court of claims...
...Congress must support the Administration, even when he thinks it is the wish of his constituents on a particular issue to vote otherwise, is not altogether new in American politics. It has been espoused before but with little success by either party. President Taft in 1910 tried to punish the Western Insurgents by threatening to withhold "patronage," but the attempt was a boomerang. The Republican regulars tried it again shortly after 1912, but in 1916 welcomed their opponents into the fold...