Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factory worker and the fish peddler remain in jail with only two hopes left. Either their able lawyer, William G. Thompson, can file exceptions to Judge Thayers" opinion in the State Supreme Court; or Governor Fuller of Massachusetts can grant them a pardon...
...purpose--but you understand. Boston College Beaten. You can see how ridiculous that is. And "Cav", I call him "Cav", and I such buddies too. But what did I accomplish, besides making poor "Cav" cry his eyes out? Nothing, or even less. For when I went to the girl, pardon the sentiment, of my dreams, did she fall on my neck and say, "Joe, you're human after all." Did she, I repeat? She did not. She said, "You poor fish, you made me bet my bottom dollar and several next to the bottom dollars against Boston college. I thought...
That the Dictator Premier considers his power appreciably bolstered by the plebiscite was seen last week when he telephoned King Alfonso XIII and asked if the monarch would pardon several artillery officers implicated in the recently suppressed mutiny against the Government (TIME, July 5 et ceq.). Replied King Alfonso over the telephone, "Si! I will pardon them." Forthwith the mutineers' sentences (one, the death penalty) were commuted...
...been long in office before cocaine-dusted political rivals tampered records, made her son illegitimate. Soon, by further dirty work, the same son stood white-faced in a prisoner's dock to receive a murderer's death sentence. The Governess arose, screamed, "And I shall pardon him! It is my right!" Shouts from outside penetrated the wrecked, nerve-shaken courtroom. "Extra! Extra! Governess Fenway impeached!" . . . Her Honor, the Governor, released last week, is a good cinema...
...Honor the Governor (Pauline Frederick). The term of "Ma" Ferguson in Texas probably inspired this effort; a story of a woman's woes in politics. The governor's son is charged with murder. The executive mother is about to pardon him when it appears that he is an illegitimate son and she an unmarried mother. Need it be said that both charges are untrue? Need it be said that she retires from politics to the simple married life ? Need it be said that feminists will be furious with the whole thing? Pauline Frederick contributes a good performance...