Word: punishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jury tried to piece together the story. Warden Worthy, paunchy and thin-lipped, looking more like a schoolteacher than a road-gang boss, said that the trouble had started out on the highway when the convicts refused to work. He said that he had intended only to punish the ringleaders. He was defiant: "I got a right to knock 'em in the head and drag 'em to the hot box if I can't put 'em in anyways else." But he insisted that he had not fired until a Negro lunged for him, grabbing...
...columns of the Berlin Kurier last week, a middle-aged German named Hans Hirthammer waxed reminiscent over his schooldays in Bavaria's Landshut. They were not happy days. The school's rector was a harsh man who used to set his bullying son to spy on and punish the pupils. Called a born criminal by his father, the boy delighted in dreaming up ingenious punishments. Sometimes he forced the students to empty huge garbage cans and then refill them piece by piece with their bare hands. One day the students rebelled and jammed the rector...
...that it may not be able to keep indefinitely its head start in the atomic armaments race, wants international control of atomic energy, and takes it as obvious that "control" includes the right to look into all countries and see what they are doing with fissionable material, and to punish them by international action if they break the rules. Until the U.S. Government is sure that control is defined in those terms, the U.S. has no intention of giving up its head start in atomic development. The Russians apparently are even more distrustful; although they now lack The Bomb, they...
...question remained: Had the prosecution proved anything beyond the victors' power to punish the vanquished? In Washington last week, where he had flown to report to President Truman, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph Berry Keenan answered with a resounding yes. Said he: "We see this trial as establishing the precedent. . . that wagers of aggressive warfare are . . . outlaws...
Friends of labor "could take comfort from some words: "We must not, in order to punish a few labor leaders, pass vindictive laws which will restrict the proper rights of the rank & file of labor." But his proposal that a joint congressional-presidential commission be set up to draft labor legislation was opening the door to another Case Bill-since that is exactly what G.O.P. congressional members would demand...