Word: penalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power, tall, flabby Dr. Hans Frank, one of the first Nazis, was kept busy defending brown-shirted terrorists in German courts and figuring out legal ways & means for the Nazis to take over the Government. Since Jan. 30, 1933, Dr. Frank has been even more occupied writing a Nazi Penal Code, compiling briefs proving the Third Reich's legal rights to its conquests, thinking up new methods to milk the Jews of their money and jobs...
...substituting the initials of recognizable prominent Rightists, instead of the conventional Mr. X, as having been caught in the dragnet. As stories grew to first-class scandal proportions, Premier Daladier stepped in, warned newspapers that real or imagery revelations of the Government's press inquiry would be considered penal offenses...
...locked in at night, the guards engage in rifle practice. They leave their targets (human-shaped dummies) sprawled along the walkway with bullet holes in vital spots for the prisoners to see in the morning. No convict has escaped alive from Alcatraz. A number have gone "stir crazy." The penal psychology there is to make big shots into little ones. The country's" most poisonous malefactors are sent there to prevent their infecting less dangerous inmates of other Federal prisons. Alcatraz, "The Rock," is one nightmare which the most hardened criminals, outside it as well as in, cannot laugh...
...crash experts of the Air Safety Board turned over to the Civil Aeronautics Authority their official report of the loss of U. A. L.'s Trip 6. It was the most damning official criticism of plane and ground crews in U. S. airline history. It also recommended unprecedented penal ties for both. After the crash, Pilot Stead's explanation was that he got lost because sunspot activity caused radio "long skip." made remote radio stations drown out ranges on his course (TIME, Dec. 12). The hard-headed experts of the Air Safety Board summarily laid the crash down...
Yale, still a newcomer to the scholastic world, has been acting up again. Simply because six Canadians on skates managed to put a little rubber puck into a cage with sticks five times to the Blue's twice, one thousand undergraduates violated eleven statutes of the Connecticut Penal Code. Harvard on the same evening let another group of Canadians romp over them eleven times to the Crimson's once, and the Square remained so quiet you could have heard a pin drop...