Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administrator were taxed to the utmost when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made him nationally known--the unconditional refusal of Tom Mooney's petition for a pardon--the remainder has been incompetent and drab. Sunny Jim has been a confused and bewildered man since he entered office, and on this occasion he quite lost his head and reverted to his natural impulses as an American, in the process espousing the thinness of his cultural veneer...
...killers and underworld rabble. Fortune's fool was there too, a murderer named Boyer who was to have been executed the morning after an assassin killed France's President Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16, 1932). On the technicality that Boyer thus lost his last-minute chance of pardon, his sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment...
...laws which his Cabinet promptly adopted by decree. These provide the death penalty for attempts on the life of Nazi officials in Prussia, for "subversive activity," and for the spreading of greuel-geschichten ("atrocity stories"). The new laws also vest in Premier Göring personally more authority to pardon than was possessed by the King of Prussia...
...every case where the crime was committed to meet a pressing need I propose to inquire whether I cannot, by quashing legal proceedings or granting a pardon, make it possible for the culprit to take part once more, with his head high, in the battle against economic misery...
...When de Sarnac comes to arrest him, Voltaire shows him a packet of verses which King Frederick has sent him for corrections, pretends that they contain damaging evidence against de Sarnac. When the King arrives to reclaim Pompadour, de Sarnac admits enough to cause the King to arrest him, pardon Voltaire, restore Pompadour, release Nanette and her captain...