Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Morley charges Warden Tynan with incompetence, in- human treatment of convicts, insubordination and drunkenness. The Warden replies that the Governor is a Klansman and wants to parole or pardon most of his convicts. The two officials have been snarling at each other for two years. Governor Morley went out of office last week in favor of Governor Adams; Warden Tynan was not grieved...
Governor "Ma" Ferguson has established a new record for clemency, or so it is called, in the state of Taxas, by granting a total of 3177 pardons during her term of office. Perhaps Governor Ferguson's apparent compassion for those so unfortunate as to have suffered the tyranny of the law is an expression of her true feeling; on the other hand it may be the result of her political method. Her attitude, however, has prompted at least one criminal court of Texas to suspend its criminal calendar until the expiration of Mrs. Ferguson's term, the eighteenth of this...
Texas. With pardon-seekers crowding in the capitol, Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson prepared to retire on Jan. 19 in favor of Dan Moody. Last week, "Ma," with the advice of "Pa," pardoned a bigamist, a onetime mayor who had killed his son-in-law and 27 lesser convicts. During the 22 months of her governorship, "Ma" has issued some 3,000 clemency proclamations...
...college literary magazines spring eternal from the female scribe. So like a Phoenix from the ashes of the Bay Tree (pardon the metaphor) springs the new Radcliffe magazine, sponsored by that carefree little journal, the News...
...sincerely beg your pardon, ladies and gentlemen of the Browning Club; I have taken too long in expressing . . . May I quote from the editorial which launches--no, one doesn't launch a tree, does one . . . but this isn't a tree any more...