Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propitious moment has come for Congress to take up the Bonus Bill again. Here is an instance to show that our boys are worthy. They have proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that they would know what to do with that money they went through hell for, pardon, the money they deserve for making the world safe for democracy...
...words, "I knew I must have an operation and I didn't want Dennis to be without care," have all stirred the well of British sentiment to its depths. Two days after her conviction as a murderer Mother May was assured of reprieve. In Britain for pardon to follow reprieve in a murder case is rare indeed. Last week Mother May was taken home by limousine and police were assigned "to guard her from cranks." Leaning forward excitedly as the car swept up to her door, she waved to her 70-year-old husband. Speaking of her operation, Mother...
Hunting for "reels" and "sinful songs," Mr. Lomax found that the penitentiaries were the most fruitful places. He took a recording of one of Lead Belly's musical pleas for pardon to Governor O. K. Allen of Louisiana and a month later the darky got a pardon...
...newsorgans throughout the world denounced Der Reichsführer, wiseacres predicted that the furore would cause him to pardon somebody. Obliging Herr Hitler promptly fulfilled this prophecy, used his powers for the first time to prevent a beheading, saved and sent to 15 years imprisonment no woman but a man, one Bernard Pischon, sentenced to death for shooting a Storm Trooper...
...obscure nurse named Madeleine Poirier slaved for years to get Life Convict Ullmo pardoned. She had never seen him, but his sentence impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...