Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unmixed indignation of the execution of six Greek leaders, military and civil, on a charge of high treason,--a charge based, it is claimed, on their defeat at the hands of the Turks, at the same time people in the United States are protesting scarcely less vigorously against the pardon of William Bross Lloyd, millionaire convicted of sedition, after he had served eight days of a five year prison sentence...
...your pardon, Sir, if I am forced to write the following: my economical situation is as well as that of most German students after the last war not so that I am able to write letters over German literature without any compensation. I will nothing gain from our correspondence, but I may only have a like compensation for the loss of time, which costs the writing of these letters. I hope you understand me, and I believe that you will be able to fulfil my condition without great sacrafice, because your money has a considerably greater value than ours...
...last week Messrs, Mason, and MeNaughton have written your paper urging that a friend of mine be kept in jail. The points for the pardon of Debs fall into three main groups...
...unthinking". I even go with him in his implied belief that the word of a thinker is less likely to be taken as law by "near Americans" if he is incarcerated than if he is left at large. Admirable as Mr. Mason's scorn for those who, through the pardon of Gene Debs, might be encouraged to obstruct the prosecution of future wars; edifying is his stand in regard to the freeing of William Haywood...