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...around the campus with his pipe and one of his wife's dogs. Tiny, popular Mrs. Dodds, daughter of a Nova Scotian wholesaler, likes to dance and sing. Dodd's Princeton, President Dodds has neither brought nor promised Princeton a New Deal. "I trust the alumni will pardon me," he wrote last autumn, "if at this time I propose no stirring platform of educational policy or radical reform. Princeton accepts as valid some of the current charges against American education and in a quiet and persistent manner she will continue to improve her methods.'' His only...
...Jimmy" Walker, onetime Mayor of New York, he gave lavish parties for visiting notables, made appropriate speeches at prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought his first pair of shoes last year for $13.87). His administration was nationally criticized in 1932 when he refused to pardon famed Convict Tom Mooney, and in 1933 when he declared he would pardon the lynchers of the kidnap-murderers of Brooke Hart if they were arrested (TIME, Dec. 4). Frank F. Merriam succeeds him as Governor...
Many a non-Catholic has been perplexed by indulgences, believing that they afford an easy means of forgiveness of sin or pardon for future sin. According to Catholic doctrine, an indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of temporal punishment (in Purgatory) for sins whose guilt has already been forgiven. It may be a plenary indulgence, granted only by the Pope, remitting all punishment; or a partial indulgence releasing the sinner from a certain number of days or years of it. This method of reckoning indulgences is based on the Early Christian custom of expiating sins with public...
...term in the penitentiary; burglary insurance rates are the highest of any city in the country; Conrad Mann, president of the Chamber of Commerce and good friend of Herbert Hoover, was saved from serving five months in a Federal House of Detention on a lottery conviction by a pardon from President Roosevelt (TIME...
...still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer who admits defeat with a broad smile, and Porter gets a pardon...