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Millionaire "Socialist." Altgeld's bravest, best-known act as governor of Illinois was his pardon, in 1893, of three labor leaders jailed for complicity in Chicago's Haymarket bombing seven years earlier.* For this he was damned far & wide as a "Socialist," a "wild-haired demagogue." Robert Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's only surviving son, rose at a Harvard alumni banquet to beg all good Harvard men to "stand firm in the midst of such dangers in the republic." The press screamed that the Governor was encouraging "anarchy, rapine and the overthrow of civilization...
During the next 22 years, the purchasing agent received orders for everything from dimethylcylohexanone to live cock-roaches. Mr. Morse wrote down many of his experiences and anecdotes, and published them in a book, "Pardon My Harvard Accent...
...last issue of your magazine [TIME, Feb. 11] you included a discussion of American fiction during the past 30 or 40 years. . . . You appeared to apologize for the fact that the outstanding novelists of the last decade were Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and John O'Hara. Pardon us, but we had thought that no one need apologize for the splendid writings of these men. However, our real issue with you is the fact that you omitted Thomas Wolfe from your list of our best authors. This is incredible. . . . Although they are unorthodox, his novels which are sheer poetry...
Quicker than he could say pardon!, another announcer broke in: "Atomic energy has turned [into a] Frankenstein [monster and] mastered its inventors. Shattering explosions have rent the earth from Siberia to Ontario...
Last week, after 29 years in jail, Lifer Bradford was being considered for a pardon. In his favor: his classmates ('13) at the University of New Hampshire had just voted Maurice Bradford the alumnus who "has done most for his fellow...