Word: pardonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people, not two percent of them would have voted for it. Would we have apologized, under identical circumstances, to the president of Liberia? Should the president of Nicaragua be miffed at some careless statement of an army officer, would we get down on our knees and pray for his pardon? Can you imagine this country debasing itself just because some petty potentate of some little two-by-four country was peeved at the careless remark of some Marine? If not, why do we become hysterical when Mussolini cracks his whip? Let each man draw his own conclusion...
...Power to pardon rests with His Majesty's Home Secretary, at present the Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes, onetime worker in a cotton mill. One night last week he sat up late, thought about one Olive Catherine Wise. She had put a baby (hers) in an oven (cold) and turned on the gas. She had been sentenced to hang. Were there extenuating circumstances...
...charges without a hearing, a direct violation of the Criminal Code which provides that a wayward minor can be committed only ''by competent evidence upon a hearing." Last week Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's only action in face of innumerable scandals was to consider a blanket pardon for all those jailed because magistrates had ignored...
Petitions for pardon of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney have bothered governors of California since 1916, when the two were jailed for a Preparedness Day bombing which they have continued to insist they did not commit. Last July several States' witnesses renounced the testimony which had convicted Mooney & Billings, reopening the case (TIME, July 14 et seq.). The State Supreme Court, which has sole jurisdiction over Billings because he is a second-offender, sat not as a court but as an advisory pardon board. They heard the entire bombing rehashed. The Governor said he would...
...pardon us, while we all go out and get run over," apologized Groucho, as the foursome left the room