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...their cues from his wife who, as "Aunt Vivian," broadcast bedtime stories over a private radio station. Convicted, Olmstead was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $8,000, assessed court costs. The sentence long since served, he has turned religious, become a Christian Scientist. Last week with a pardon as a Christmas present, President Roosevelt excused Roy Olmstead from the unpaid fine and costs, restored his civil rights. At a press conference last February, the President called forward to his desk James Parks Hornaday, Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News, and declared: "The nicest and truest thing...
Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey (who also has 13 letters in his name), has no power to pardon prisoners, but he can stay executions for as much as 90 days. That the week of Jan. 13 may come and go without Prisoner Hauptmann's paying the supreme penalty for his crime was indicated last week when Governor Hoffman declared: "If Bruno Hauptmann were to be electrocuted tonight there would still be in my mind and, I am convinced, in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people, great doubt that the Lindbergh baby murder had been solved completely...
Arrested last week, Besson accepted fate stoically. But no sooner was he arraigned before the magistrate than friends produced as from a magician's hat a full pardon-signed by Albert Lebrun, President of France...
...retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin of many a sympathizer, most of whom were mild liberals, Anita Whitney promptly marched back to the Communist battle line as an orthodox Stalinite. In the election which led to her arrest, she polled over 100,000 votes as her Party's candidate for State Comptroller. Considered...
Being a lawless rascal himself--but a gentle soul--the Vagabond feels there is too much anxiety over the Constitution and what nice piece of legislation the supreme judges will knock out next. Despite the belief of Justice Story to the contrary--beg pardon Sir--the Supreme Court has since his day frequently declared acts of congress and State legislation unconstitutional. And wasn't it back in 1828 that Jackson was elected despite Chief Justice Marshal's fears and clamors bout the constitution? Anxiety over the constitution and the Supreme Court has been with us from the outset...