Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such calumnies cannot remain unpunished. He who so speaks outside of Spain and who has on no occasion risked his life for her is an enemy to his flag. May God be pleased to enlighten this bad patriot and pardon him the wrong he has done Spain...
...book section of The New York Times. When I have read a New York daily, The Outlook and my special publications in Science. TIME contains nothing of interest to me which I have not already seen. The first section of TIME, called "Mr. Coolidge's Week" (pardon me if I say it) sounds like the items of neighborhood gossip in a country newspaper...
...taking a bribe. It was charged that one Fred W. Pollman, a banker convicted of forgery and sentenced to prison had, with the knowledge of state attorneys, entered into negotiations with Russell Davis, the Governor's son; that he promised to pay $1,250 in exchange for a pardon; that Russell Davis visited a room in a Topeka hotel and received $1,000 from Pollman, while reporters and a stenographer listened to the conversation by a telephonic device in a room near by; that Russell Davis went away and returned with the pardon; that Pollman then delivered $250 more...
...Governor insisted that the whole thing was a "frame-up" and that advantage had been taken of the "unsophisticated nature" of his son, whom he had asked to deliver the pardon...
...that American standard, which holds size to be the criterion of worth, the secretary of a big navy should be a bigger man than the secretary of a small navy. Can it be that Mr. Wilbur is haunted by dreams of greatness? If so, human frailty can pardon him his desire; but human reason cannot overlook his obtuseness in yielding to it when peace demands, net larger, but smaller navies, when public economy urges, not increased, but diminished expenditure...