Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find that considerable money is to be had for appearing for a week at Radio City. I can't see anything wrong with earning that money. I haven't accepted the offer yet, but I'm thinking about it .... I hope the aeronautical people will pardon...
...Pardon me if the criticism seems unduly harsh. It is my opinion that there is altogether too much loose writing and talking in the Field of Medicine. We of the Profession are the worst offenders-but we reserve the privilege...
Still unaffected was Mooney's prior conviction. All that he had gained was additional publicity for his case, perhaps grounds for a second pardon plea to unsympathetic Governor Rolph. His counsel held out the hope that last week's acquittal might provide cause for an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on the assumption that Mooney is now deprived of his liberty without due process of law. Sticking out his hands for his handcuffs, Tom Mooney went back to San Quentin Prison to wait some more...
...life imprisonment of Thomas Mooney on charges of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade in which ten persons were killed: a new trial on one of six untried indictments (TIME, April 3). Convict Mooney expected that acquittal would strengthen his fight for pardon...
...courtyard of Fort Braschi at dawn Ugo Traviglia was marched before a firing squad. Dramatically he begged his executioners' pardon, asked to be shot in the breast, facing the rifles with his eyes unbound. It was not granted. Ugo Traviglia was blindfolded, shot in the back...