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...Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment or a $10,000 to $100,000 fine or both. Onlookers detected not flask, nor glass, nor scent of liquor at the banquet...
...Protocol, expressed a strong desire to see it revived, and added, "no project for the maintenance of Peace will be effective unless it have root in the League." 2) Mr. Austen Chamberlain then again torpedoed the Protocol, in the name of Britain, declaring that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes" and preferred an extra-League Security Treaty, for the present. 3) He was answered by M. Paul Boncour, for France, on whom the dead Viviani's mantle as an orator...
...always takes care to treat the Sultan's subjects with great tact. He has infinite patience, but, driven to act, he moves with merciless rapidity. The Arabs, who almost always admire a brave and wise man, admire Marshal Lyautey; for he never fails to punish the culpable, no matter how difficult it may be, and he never fails to pay the utmost respect to native traditions and beliefs. In that he is both brave and wise. All this does Abd-el-Krim know...
...began to see the futility of his own tactics, in view of sporadic terrorist activities. He saw that Swaraj could be obtained only through supporting the dyarchical system and the lawful suppression of violence. He asked the Government to cooperate by abrogating its arbitrary powers to arrest and punish agitators. Gandhi joined him last autumn, and non-coöperation came...
...faculty has always punished the authors of "Bottle Night" disturbances. They occur almost annually and result in two or three hot-headed Freshmen being separated from the university. Talk of athletic or other extra-curriculum privileges of the class being taken away is not encouraged by the authorities, who insist that beyond a few individual penalties the subject is likely to be dropped. The faculty does not intend to punish the entire class for a disturbance created by only a small fraction of its membership...