Word: guiltlessness
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...Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, the Kirkpatrick decision was reversed and Broker Norris exonerated. More, the U. S. was flayed in a decision which said: "It appears that while the legislative department of the Government has deliberately and intentionally made the purchaser of liquor guiltless of any offense under the Prohibition law, the executive department of the government seeks here, by indirection, to make the same fact, namely the purchase, a crime subjecting the purchasers to a maximum fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for a term of two years...
...Mooncy and Warren K. Billings, trade-unionists, were accused and convicted of murder after a bomb which killed ten, had been thrown into a San Francisco "Preparedness" parade. Later evidence seemed to prove them not guilty. Their judge and nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis...
...mediocrity of Zenith; but Sam only knew that he'd like to see the land of his ancestors, inspect the Rolls Royce and Mercedes plants; then, refreshed, rush home to work at a motor caravan idea for campers, or a residential section for Zenith that should be guiltless of Tudor castles and Swiss chateaux...
...questions, an event last week at Lima, Ohio, furnished ideal debate. The ques-tions suggested were: Can a madman be heroic? Can a hero be mad? The event was this: George Remus, one-time Illinois lawyer, then millionaire Ohio bootlegger, then convict, then insensate wife-murderer, who was judged guiltless but mentally insecure in Cincinnati (TIME, Jan. 2), and who was confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately strangling him. Was it sane courage...
...think so. His own church, after long and painstaking investigation, fully exonerated him. A jury failed to convict him. A congregational council of 200 earnest men acquitted him without a dissenting vote. His own wife knew him better than any scandalmongering writer, and she knew him to be guiltless...