Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin of many a sympathizer, most of whom were mild liberals, Anita Whitney promptly marched back to the Communist battle line as an orthodox Stalinite. In the election which led to her arrest, she polled over 100,000 votes as her Party's candidate for State Comptroller. Considered...
Being a lawless rascal himself--but a gentle soul--the Vagabond feels there is too much anxiety over the Constitution and what nice piece of legislation the supreme judges will knock out next. Despite the belief of Justice Story to the contrary--beg pardon Sir--the Supreme Court has since his day frequently declared acts of congress and State legislation unconstitutional. And wasn't it back in 1828 that Jackson was elected despite Chief Justice Marshal's fears and clamors bout the constitution? Anxiety over the constitution and the Supreme Court has been with us from the outset...
...looks," chuckled the Governor of Iowa, "as if I might have to write out a pardon for myself when I get home tomorrow...
Emotional Britons have been excited about "mercy killing" since the pardon acquittal of Mother May Brownhill for poisoning and asphyxiating her imbecile son Dennis (TIME, March 11). Lord Moynihan of the Royal College of Surgeons is pushing the "Right to Die" movement, backed by the Earl of Listowel and Lord Denman, onetime Governor General of Australia. Last week Lord Moynihan deprecated the Mail story as a cheap advertisement, said his group would put his proposition sensibly to the British public in December, try to get a permissive bill through Parliament...
...that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn effort to save Hauptmann from the electric chair sometime before Christmas, defense counsel considered appealing to the U. S. Supreme Court on an unindicated point of constitutional law, to the State Pardon Board for clemency, to State courts for another trial on grounds of new evidence...