Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formosa, U.S. newsmen asked a Nationalist spokesman why six years had elapsed before steps were taken to punish the alleged corruption. The embarrassed reply: "I suppose we have to blame it on our own inefficiency...
Harry Truman's 1948 attempt to punish Mississippi Dixiecrats, and reward the boys who didn't walk out on him, came to a sorry little anticlimax last week in Jackson, Miss. A federal grand jury indicted twelve politicos, including the leaders of Mississippi's pro-Truman State Democratic Committee, for peddling Federal patronage jobs to the highest bidder (TIME, April 23). Among those indicted: Clarence E. Hood Jr., former acting Democratic National Committeeman; Frank Mize, chairman of the pro-Truman committee and brother of a federal judge. The crimes alleged are both petty and sleazy. The committee...
...Part of the Indian press, said he, is dirty, indulges in "vulgarity, indecency and falsehood." To teach it manners, Nehru proposed an amendment to India's constitution that would impose severe restrictions on freedom of speech and expression. He asked for power to curb the press and to punish persons and newspapers for "contempt of court, defamation and incitement to an offense." Nehru told Parliament: "It has become a matter of the deepest distress to me to see the way in which the less responsible news sheets are being conducted . . . not injuring me or this House much, but poisoning...
...punish the enemy for invading Korea, Truman was willing last June to fight Korean Communists, Filipino Communists and Viet Minh Communists. All that MacArthur suggested was that he be allowed to fight some different Chinese Communists from the ones who were fighting him. No, said the President on April 11, that would be widening...
There are many other reasons why Massachusetts should not make the mistake that Maryland made in 1949, if only that it already has wide authority over the political actions of all its employees and can certainly punish treasonable action by citizens...