Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added deterrent to such crimes, where the criminal often turns out to have a long police record, O'Donnell also makes the "serious proposal that any member of a federal, state or county parole board, or any judge who recommends a pardon or commutation of sentence, or any President who springs a federal prisoner or restores citizenship, shall, in the event the convicted criminal commits a crime after his release, be tossed automatically into the jailhouse to serve the same term as that imposed on the criminal he has improperly released...
...Light. In the resultant editorial hand-wringing the world over, the sensitive Indians were probably the most bitter. THE WORLD'S CHAMPION BLUNDERER, headlined the middle-of-the-road People of Lucknow, meaning the U.S. "An affront to peace," said the big Times of India. "History will not pardon her [the U.S.]" said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position. In London...
...months after taking over as president of Princeton University, Political Scientist Harold W. Dodds issued a typically Doddsian communique. "I hope the alumni will pardon me," he wrote, "if at this time I propose no stirring platform ... or radical reform." As things turned out, President Dodds has never made any such proposals, and his alumni have gone right on pardoning him. It made no difference that Robert Hutchins was once supposed to have cracked: "What's wrong with you down there at Princeton? You're never stirring things up." Last week, as he passed his 20th anniversary...
Zapotocky's answer to Ike's letter was handed to U.S. Ambassador George Wadsworth in Prague only 16 hours before Oatis' release (TIME, May 25). Wrote Zapotocky: "I have decided on May 15, 1953 to grant pardon to Mr. William Oatis for the uncompleted part of his sentence." Wadsworth promptly cabled the letter to Washington, but the White House did not release it until five days later. Under the niceties of diplomacy, letters between heads of state are not made public until both governments agree. By "the time the White House got Prague's approval...
...Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Two days before the execution in Boston, Vanzetti wrote Ford: "I have always claimed my intire innocence and I will die affirming it. We have an extraordinary mass of newly discovered evidence of such weight and nature to impose our release ... I beg your pardon for my so many words...