Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, two years and four months after the conviction, after one unsuccessful appeal to the Circuit Court and two to the Supreme Court, Andy May was still at liberty. With his codefendants, the Garssons, he had cooked up one more dodge; they asked Washington's District Court to reduce their sentences and let them go free on probation...
...from ever holding public office or practicing law again in his native state. (His lawyers did not mention that May, despite his conviction, gets a lifetime federal pension of about $3,400 a year for his 16 years in Congress.) His doctor was even more persuasive. He told the court that a prison term might actually kill old Andy...
...public interest would be better served ... by the granting of probation to an old and broken man," said the appeal. The court gave the government a week to reply, and Andy May and the Garsson brothers had won at least one more postponement of their date with the warden...
Angry Panamanians denounced the police tactics. Almost nightly, cops tangled with citizens. The Panamá-América called for a general strike against the "police state." Merchants shut their shops, workers walked out on their jobs. Then the Supreme Court decided to review the constitutionality of the Chiari regime...
Legality at the Palace. That convinced Remón that he would have to try a third President. Even before the court spoke, the disgusted strong man cried: "If they want legality, I'll give them legality. I'll give them Arnulfo...