Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term in the penitentiary; burglary insurance rates are the highest of any city in the country; Conrad Mann, president of the Chamber of Commerce and good friend of Herbert Hoover, was saved from serving five months in a Federal House of Detention on a lottery conviction by a pardon from President Roosevelt (TIME...
...still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer who admits defeat with a broad smile, and Porter gets a pardon...
...Tallahassee, Fla. Gerald 0. Steele, convict, serving 15 years on the chain gang, was informed that his sentence had been reduced to five years because he had written to the Pardon Board and Governor Dave Sholtz praising the chain gang system...
...sentence to life imprisonment. Last year Prisoner Menafee was released from Atlanta penitentiary on a writ of habeas corpus, only to be returned when a Federal court changed its mind. Again, last week the only person who could save Gus Menafee was Franklin Roosevelt with an executive pardon...
...declared: "This is the best lesson California has ever given the country. We show the country that the State is not going to tolerate kidnap ping. "I don't think they will arrest anyone for the lynchings. If anyone is arrested for the good job, I'll pardon them all. Why should I call out troops to protect those two fellows...