Word: pardonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seemingly this nuptial fact was the basis on which King Vittorio Emanuele III ventured last week to pardon Leo Moulin who has served but eight months of his sentence. Stiffly the Dictator's office announced that a special guard would accompany Professor Moulin to the frontier; he would never again be allowed inside Italy...
...public which is used to much political braying in the wilderness will not be surprised that Representative Crisp, of Georgia, has seen fit to introduce a bill pardoning the convicted defendants in the Massie case; but it must wonder at the state of mind which the action reflects. A pardon extended form the highest legislative body in the nation would virtually sanction the action of any person who takes the law in his own hands and commits an act of Violence. That lynching and violent personal revenge are subversive of law and order, and contrary to the spirit of modern...
...Thomas J. Mooney was guilty of the offense charged against him. He was justly convicted by the jury. . . . [91;His] application for a pardon is hereby denied...
...emotional appeal to his good friend Governor Rolph for Mooney's release. To Matt Sullivan, his legal adviser and onetime chief justice of the State Supreme Court, Governor Rolph turned over the Mooney record for recommendations. After five months Mr. Sullivan advised the Governor to refuse Mooney a pardon for the following reasons...
...Governors Stephens, Richardson and Young refused to pardon Mooney. Four times the California Supreme Court reviewed the Mooney case which was once carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. President Wilson's personal intervention secured a commutation of Mooney's death sentence to life imprisonment. Three Federal investigations of the Mooney case were made, the last being by a subcommittee of the defunct Wickersham Commission...