Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith plan advocated no tampering with the power of pardon. "Pardon," said the Governor, "is so plenary a power that it becomes a matter of one man and his conscience. Members of a board, would only be voting, and they would not feel the individual responsibility...
Said Lawyer Clarence Darrow: "I believe it is the next step . . . . The main thing to be taken into consideration by such a board of correction suggested by Governor Smith would be: can the defendant be saved, be returned to society...
...Governor Ralph O. Brewster...
Oklahoma, state of many Indians,* spent last fortnight in a mist of political metaphysics. Four members of the Legislature accused Governor Henry S. Johnston of not being Governor. They said his secretary, small, attractive, dark-haired, formidable Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, was "Governor in fact." They asked Governor Johnston to call a special meeting of the Legislature to investigate himself (TIME, Dec. 5). How an alleged non-Governor could convene the Legislature, the legislators did not explain. Perhaps they thought Mr. Johnston would know because among his reputed misdemeanors was taking an interest in things psychic. But Mr. Johnston gave...
State Senators persuaded Governor Johnston to remove the guard from their chamber. He did so without recognizing the Senators' authority to set themselves up as a court of impeachment. To establish their authority the Senators asked various judges to preside over them. The judges refused but the Senators voted to try Governor Johnston anyway...