Word: pardons
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Last week the Hamburg city council took pity on Private Schleicher, and passed a special legislative act granting him full pardon for everything. But bitterness had entered the sack's sad soul. "I'm going to spend my life," he swore, "fighting the stupid red tape which is entangling every German...
...contrast, heavy snow, icy roads, and a rail strike forced Registrar Sargent Kennedy to pardon last February's late-comers. He termed the hindrances "acts...
...hours later by the army officers he thought would join him. By 4 p.m. the same day, he was in the massive old jail in Quito, Ecuador's capital, 290 miles away. Last July, after Guevara had served a year, President Galo Plaza Lasso got Congress to pardon and free...
...release is no longer a significant issue so far as the problem of Massachusetts industry is concerned. However, the arguments have gone on so long that neither side can back out. The Republicans have moved to file contempt charges against DelMonte, and Dever has announced that he will fully pardon his Labor Commissioner of any penalty that the Senate may propose...
...headline, IN CARACAS, EVERYBODY'S GROUCHY. Mourned Yanes: "Every day, people laugh less," and he illustrated his point with a photograph of caraqueños glumly leaving a movie theater after a comedy. Everywhere Yanes found unsmiling citizens giving each other the rough sides of their tongues. "Pardon me," said Yanes to a man he had jostled in the street. "Pardon, is it? A little more of that and I'll slug you?" was the reply. Yanes left the reader to wonder what Venezuelans have to laugh about...