Word: punished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine distinction in the high court's decision, which Judge Cardozo wrote, rested on two points: 1) The law of New York allows immunity to be granted to an actual briber, so that the State may discover and punish the public servant bribed; 2) In the case of a person who has only conspired to bribe or otherwise break the law, the State of New York does not compel him to testify against himself; without specially enacted authority, no judge or legislative committee can relieve him of the risk of prosecution...
...photographed with William Quinn, Chief of San Francisco police. Burly Chief Quinn looked down at Mother Clark as she cocked a finger at him and said: "I hear the young people nowadays are quite a problem. . . . You should bring in the parents, have them take their child home and punish him. . . . There were gangsters in my day, too, but their fathers took them home and spanked them. The gangsters now are bad boys who didn't get enough spankings. . . . Young people now are as good as when I was young. Years ago it was hard to keep them...
...this Colossus of Britain were a monstrous swindler and a mean cheat, what Court, what Law would be so mighty as to overawe or punish him? Last week in the ancient, musty Guildhall of London, Lord Kylsant was brought to trial before a man even more impressive than himself. Without the consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great...
...defense attorney" and the "prisoner": a Finnish janitor who spoke no English. He was charged with "white chauvinism" (i. e. race prejudice). Stupid persons in the audience probably thought that this was a real court, that the Communist International has power, even in the city of New York, to punish a white man for incivility to Negroes...
...could these Senators get their hands back on these three Power Commissioners and punish them for their conduct? Their confirmations had gone to the President. They had taken oaths of office and commenced to function. They seemed quite outside the Senate's jurisdiction...