Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to a letter from the eight Ivy League college presidents, the White House has declared that the draft should not be used to punish anti-war and anti-draft protestors...
...Hershey edict. And even though Hershey at week's end softened his threat by absolving "lawful protesters" from priority call-up, to many ordinary Americans it seemed peculiar that the man who describes military duty as a "privilege" should extend it to those he seeks to punish...
Also in New Haven Gov. Ronald Reagan of California criticized Selective Service director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's recommendation that the draft be used to punish anti-war protestors...
...common features characterized the four laws. First, they sought to punish a person for his status rather than his actions: a vagrant or tramp is almost by definition a poor person. Second, they left inordinate discretionary authority with the police: each of the four statutes served as a kind of elastic clause in the absence of specific criminal charges. Each could also be used, theoretically, in organized dragnets launched against whole classes of people. The Cambridge City Administration actually threatened to use the vagrancy laws against local hippies, and might even have gone ahead with this threat except...
...Tutor of Dudley House, sent the following letter to each of the Dudley men who were placed on probation for their part in the Dow demonstration. The letter, which was cleared by Deans Glimp and Ford before being mailed, explains Kerr's reasons for asking the Administrative Board to punish those Dudley men who signed statements demanding equal responsibility. Similar statements had been ignored by other Senior Tutors...