Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Painting away in jail, Siqueiros seemed to be enjoying the martyrdom of it all. Asked about his chances for a presidential pardon, he took another dig at President López Mateos: "I suppose the President will have to ask the U.S. before he acts...
...refugee camp. Why shouldn't even East Germany look wonderful?" Benkhedda himself, although he distrusts Soviet-policy, has occasionally spouted Red cliches. He has compared Algeria's struggle with France to Latin America's struggle against "North American imperialism." As for Cuba, "the Americans cannot pardon Fidel Castro for having thrown off the yoke of Yankee trusts and monopolies." If the F.L.N. pushes its promised land reforms and its collective approach to the task of. rebuilding and industrializing the country, independent Algeria will demand of its people the kind of discipline and sacrifices that only a Communist...
Reinhold Niebuhr, visiting professor of Theology, is a principal signer of a petition asking President Kennedy to pardon Junius Scales, a former North Carolina Communist serving a six-year prison sentence for violation of the Smith...
South Carolina's Democratic Senator J. Strom Thurmond looked across the witness table at Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and asked: "What is the soh'ce of yo' policy?" Sylvester, who is from Montclair, N.J., was puzzled: "I beg your pardon?" Repeated Thurmond: "What is the soh'ce?" "The what?" "The soh'ce-s-o-u-r-c-e." "Oh, source," "Yes, soh'ce. Ah speak with a Southern accent...
Anathema to the Family. John McCormack and John Kennedy are not boon companions. In the past, the President and the new Speaker have had several well-publicized clashes, beginning with Kennedy's refusal, as a downy-cheeked Congressman, to sign McCormack's petition for the pardon of James M. Curley from his mail-fraud jail sentence (Curley had been the bitter foe of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the President's grandfather, and therefore anathema to the unforgiving Kennedy family). That same year, Kennedy seized the Massachusetts Democratic organization from McCormack: the two men had agreed to a compromise...