Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Victor Louis Berger, Socialist Congressman from Wisconsin, applied to President Coolidge and to Attorney General Sargent to have Mr. Debs' citizenship restored. The Attorney General was of the opinion that Mr. Debs would first have to make application for pardon. Various opinions...
...Berger: "That is like asking a Methodist to seek a pardon for being a Methodist. Debs doesn't think he has done anything to be pardoned...
...traditions. Quarterback Dexter and his backfield mates conquer the waiter's eleven, but are penalized 30 days, for unnecessary roughness by the superior blue jacket reserves. An accidental escape from jail follows, a hasty wedding, so that Dexter's stay in foreign waters may not be lonesome, and a pardon by the district attorney--the bride's father, of course--lead to the fade...
These two assertions do not pardon the paper which spreads divorce in three inch headlines, savors the front page with a murder, and polishes off the whole with a hero story of bandits beaten off. Such news helps no one save the scandal monger...
...wishing for what you cannot supply. I am wishing for a current News Sheet which will give me the news, briefly, concisely and tersely, without confusing comments. But, speaking in the language of the man who stood looking at a giraffe: 'Thur ain't no sich animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although Bishop Brent was valiantly extolling the League of Na- tions in the nearby Amphitheatre, I read that copy of TIME from the upper left hand corner...