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...candidate, North Dakota's Representative William Lemke, polled a mere 891,000 out of 44,000,000 votes. Later, for refusing to answer a congressional committee, Townsend was sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt. But Franklin Roosevelt recognized the portents of martyrdom, granted him "an unsolicited pardon...
...news enterprise. It was the first to expose kickbacks at Houston's city-owned farmer's market, the first to report police shakedowns on small businessmen, the first to note scandals in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in Tex as, the first to spotlight a state pardon and parole board racket...
...same moment as a young freshman from California, Richard Nixon. Their paths were destined to cross again. In three lackluster terms in the House, Jack kept his distance from the machine-tooled Massachusetts delegation (he was the only member to refuse to sign a petition for a presidential pardon for the doughty James Michael Curley, his grandfather Fitzgerald's ancient political rival-then languishing in jail for mail fraud). In 1952 Jack was ready to play for higher stakes. At the clan councils he toyed with the idea of running for the governorship, but eventually decided to make...
Walter Pecho a full pardon. As Pecho last week walked free, after five years and seven months in prison, Governor Williams said: "The press, and particularly the Detroit Free Press, has performed a public service of the highest order...
...more in Hollywood than in Tennessee: the long, "morally offensive" seduction scene between Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach was played without dialogue, and the playwright, therefore, "was not in the least responsible." With Douay-eyed insistence, Dakin reports: "Tennessee is really looking for God ... He is searching for pardon for the sinner in the mercy of an all-loving God ... He believes in God ... He is also aware of his blood relationship to St. Francis Xavier...