Word: penally
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Twelve years ago Madre Conchita was arrested, charged with exerting an occult influence over the assassin who shot down Catholic-hounding President-elect General Don Alvaro Obregon. She was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in the grim penal colony on the Tres Marias Islands. With gentle, biblical good spirits she went to work as nurse, teacher and confidante. Her fame spread throughout her country...
...reasonable body of workable labor laws. In one it ruled that Republic Steel Corp. need not reimburse WTPA for the wages it paid to discharged and locked out Republic employes during the Little Steel strike of 1937. The ruling spanked the Labor Board for trying to make a penal statute out of the Wagner Act, which is essentially remedial...
...with utmost secrecy, behind windows covered with heavy brown paper, His Majesty's High Court of Justice concluded its trials in London's most famous criminal court, the Old Bailey. Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkov heard themselves sentenced as spies. Kent was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Anna Wolkov received ten years. Britons were surprised at the mildness of the sentences, even though one of the culprits was a citizen of a nation with which Britain wants to keep on the best of terms...
Stern Home Secretary Sir John Anderson announced that seven years of penal servitude or a fine of $1,750 or both is now the penalty for any Briton caught "systematically" fomenting opposition to the war, but still permitted were mere "expressions of opinion." This week Sir John will ask the House of Commons to enact "A Bill To Make Further Provision and Punishment For Treachery," imposing death as the penalty for serious cases of spying. Detectives this week were busy trying to catch up with quislings who plastered northeast London with stickers urging everyone to listen to "the new British...
...That Russell's doctrines would encourage violations of the State's penal...