Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Megladdery was assigned no cases by his fellow judges because at that point to Attorney General Warren went Banker Joseph H. Stephens, a member of the State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, with a story that Mark Megladdery had taken a $1,250 bribe to wangle a pardon for a murderous San Jose ex-butcher named Clarence Leddy. Judge Megladdery resigned two weeks after his elevation...
...part of the vast official, governmental, administrative and bureaucratic apparatus that translates policy to the 170,126,000. Their Presidium of 37 members elected at a joint session is theoretically the highest executive organ of State power, the interpreter of laws, donor of decorations, holder of the right of pardon. They form into the body of soviet law measures initiated, approved, determined by the Communist Party-though Party decrees are theoretically binding only on Party members. They are the shadow of the Party, moving when the Party moves. Bigger than military questions is the problem of how much their moves...
...voters last November. Last week, Olin R. Holt was convicted, with five other Kokomen, of diverting WPA labor to private enterprise. Mr. Holt spent seven months in Leavenworth eight years ago for protecting bootleggers, regained his civil rights in 1934 when Franklin Roosevelt gave him a full pardon...
Please, Gov'ner Neff, be good an' kind, An' if I can't get a pardon, will...
This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly...