Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientist Albert Einstein wrote a letter from Potsdam, Germany, to Governor James Rolph of California, appealing for an "absolute pardon" for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren H. Billings, questionably convicted of bombing the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade. Pleaded Scientist Einstein: "I, myself, am of the decided opinion which I must, express, for I cannot lie, that a miscarriage of justice undoubtedly appears in the present case...
Your article entitled "Exeter's 150th" in the issue of June 15 was decidedly off-color (if you will pardon me for saying so) in many respects. For your own benefit Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered. This would seem to prove that Exeter is more "potent scholastically" than other schools of its kind, despite your contention to the contrary...
Arkansas' Governor Parnell went to French Lick, Ind. last week to attend the Governors' Conference. That left Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Wilson in charge of the State with all the powers and privileges of a chief executive. One of his first official acts was to pardon his brother Fred, convicted last March of grand larceny and awaiting formal sentence of four years in jail...
Lawrence and Fred are the sons of Mrs. Leon Wilson, 63, who lives on a large farm near Stephens, Ark. Brother Fred's conviction filled his mother with shame and anguish. Last week Brother Lawrence declared that he had "no apologies to offer" for Brother Fred's pardon, that he had issued it largely because of his "grief-stricken mother." Two days later he went to a raspberry festival at Wynne where he told merrymakers: "You people of Cross County are all my friends and don't hesitate to call on me for help. Remember...
Germans are executed with axe and chopping block by a brawny man bedight in evening clothes and black gloves. Seemingly Peter Kuerten's neck cannot escape the axe. But the Düsseldorf Court, unwilling to take the smallest chance of the nine death sentences being set aside by pardon or reprieve, wound up by sentencing the prisoner to toil 15 years at hard labor if not executed, deprived him of all his rights as a German citizen, ordered him to pay all the costs of his trial?one of the most expensive in German criminal history...