Word: punisher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cleverly crafted political package designed to put the President on the safe side of an issue that could overshadow all others by November. In it, he doubled earlier requests for aid to local crime-fighting units to $100 million, also reversed his opposition to an antiriot bill to punish those who cross state lines to incite strife. In addition, the message pledged the Justice Department's cooperation with state and local police. Said Johnson: "You don't have to remember any name except Clark-Ramsey Clark. He's the man to phone...
Senility was not behind Hershey's directive, as one critic implied. The General has spent nearly half his professional life in the Selective Service and has come to view it as a separate social system that must independently punish its own miscreants. This view--and not dim-wittedness--made him insist that there was nothing wrong with his directive, that it merely presented an alternative method of handling "illegal" protestors. The newspapers railed him for his "inability to understand the larger issue...
This is a unique boycott, because it doesn't punish the discriminating institution. When Martin Luther King boycotted bus lines in the South, the bus line, under white pressure as well as black, eventually acceded to his demands that Negroes be allowed to sit in the front, and the boycott was termined. But the proposed Olympic boycott, which is aimed of course not at the Games but at the American society, would have little effect on discrimination in the United States...
White could sense too that Quinn, the new Speaker, would also have reasons for not wanting to punish him. The image of the House of Representatives, essentially because of its fidelity to "the system," has not been a good one in the last few years, and Quinn is not without pride or ambition. Furthermore, Quinn is a representative from Boston--the Dorchester section--and to injure legislation beneficial to Boston's plight would not sit well with the home-folks. In light of the long-standing awe and respect that exists for doing things "the system" way. White's decision...
...reply, Califano said the Selective Service System "is not an instrument to repress and punish unpopular views." He said the system does not "vest in draft boards the judicial role in determining the legality of individual conduct...