Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there be a duty to provide for tenants evicted as a consequence of restricted production of the "poverty crop,'' on whom does such duty devolve-the economically enslaved, debt-ridden landlord or the Government responsible for policies that inflict poverty on all producers of such crop...
Only reduction of Comrade Yagoda's power seemed to be in transferring to Soviet courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death. Hereafter all grave cases are to come up before Bolshevik courts-martial, noted for their readiness to inflict the supreme penalty. In his new post as Commissar, Genrikh Yagoda can by fiat sentence any Russian to exile in Siberia or elsewhere, or to imprisonment for up to five years. Since it is unusual for a prisoner to live as long as five years in certain notorious Soviet prisons, notably that of Solovetskii...
...matter is serious" cried Mr. Justice Ives "because in this case, unlike a criminal action, the jury is free to read the newspapers and is in the same position as the public. I shall inflict punishment with the hope of deterring interference with the administration of justice and the rights to which litigants are entitled...
Hard Labor for all "atrocity mongers" who publish in Germany or abroad "false or grossly distorted statements" on conditions in the Reich. About the mildest sentence the People's Court can inflict is one month in jail for publishers, printers or booksellers who make, distribute or keep in stock, even unwittingly, treasonable publications. The People's Court was not organized in time last week to handle the 48 Hamburg Communists, members of the so-called "Red Navy" who conducted periodical raids on the Red Eagle Hotel, Nazi headquarters in Hamburg, during 1932 and 1933. A summary court sentenced...
Even so the committee on privilege assembled with snowy-crested Ramsay MacDonald as its chairman. In the House of Lords paunchy Lord Derby begged his peers' permission to testify before it. Should the charge be substantiated, the mildest punishment that the House can inflict will be to summon both Sir Samuel and Lord Derby to the Bar of the House, there to receive a good round scolding from the Speaker...