Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years. At that time Watson was a 31-year-old lawyer who played the fiddle, spouted Byron by the hour, and was considered a born orator in a State famed for them. Becoming the Alliance leader, Watson worked as hard for Negro farmers as for white, fought the convict lease system, was denounced as a communist while his followers were shot at and chased from the State...
...Explorer William LaVarre in Manhattan, who took him East, arranged for publication of his book. His first job was to pass on the accuracy of Devil's Island scenes in The Life of Emile Zola. If he gets a pardon from the French Government, as he hopes, ex-Convict Belbenoit plans to go back to France, return to the U. S. under the quota...
...Mooney tells the story of his martyrdom he has at least one new fact to freshen it up. Last week, this concerned the famed photograph-in which the State claims the clock hands were retouched-which is the strongest piece of circumstantial evidence in Mooney's favor. Said Convict Mooney...
After four hours of testimony Convict Mooney ended his story as usual with a burst of tears, finally recovered enough presence of mind to pose for cameras again as he left the Assembly Chamber...
...What Convict Mooney's appearance last week amounted to was merely one more milestone in the weird marathon of his effort not to get out of jail-since he undoubtedly could get a parole-but to prove his innocence. The Assembly had subpoenaed Mooney because its strong labor bloc hoped that, if the whole body voted to give him a meaningless "legislative pardon," Governor Frank Merriam might give him a real pardon. Two days after hearing Convict Mooney, the Assembly went on record 41-10-29 as favoring a pardon, a few hours later the Senate defeated the motion...