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President Hoover last week was spared the embarrassing necessity of saying yes-or-no to the pardon petition of his one-time Cabinet colleague Albert Bacon Fall, now No. 6991 in the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Bribee Fall's plea for executive clemency got no farther than the Department of Justice where Attorney General Mitchell announced that it was automatically denied because it lacked the approval of Trial Judge William Hitz and Prosecutor Atlee Pomerene...
...with a potent stick to prod from the city's political jungle a host of important facts hitherto lurking behind Immunity. If the decision were reversed, Reform would be rendered almost impotent. Each time it wanted to make a reluctant witness talk it would have to promise him a pardon from the Governor. Even then, the witness would not have to accept the pardon...
Before Fall started for Santa Fe, President Hoover received a petition for his pardon signed by every member of the New Mexico Legislature, Senators Cutting and Bratton and Governor Seligman. In view of the President's denunciation of public betrayers when he dedicated the Harding tomb last month, it was not considered likely that he would be clement...
Scientist Albert Einstein wrote a letter from Potsdam, Germany, to Governor James Rolph of California, appealing for an "absolute pardon" for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren H. Billings, questionably convicted of bombing the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade. Pleaded Scientist Einstein: "I, myself, am of the decided opinion which I must, express, for I cannot lie, that a miscarriage of justice undoubtedly appears in the present case...
Your article entitled "Exeter's 150th" in the issue of June 15 was decidedly off-color (if you will pardon me for saying so) in many respects. For your own benefit Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered. This would seem to prove that Exeter is more "potent scholastically" than other schools of its kind, despite your contention to the contrary...