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Famed California Convict Thomas Joseph Mooney, anticipating a full pardon by Governor Culbert Olson (due about January 15), made plans for the future after almost 22 years in prison: "My long-range work after I get out of prison will be to seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...
Died. Warren T. McCray, 73, banker, stockman, onetime (1921-24) Republican Governor of Indiana; after a heart attack; at Kentland, Ind. Convicted of using the mails to defraud, he spent three years in Atlanta before being paroled in 1927, received a Christmas pardon from President Hoover...
French juridical experts said this week they did not see how Grynszpan can escape the death penalty in France, except by commutation of sentence or pardon, unless he can be extradited to some other country. He is a Polish citizen and if extradited to that rather anti-Semite country would undoubtedly fare worse than in France. For President Albert Lebrun to pardon the assassin or commute a death sentence on Herschel Grynszpan to life imprisonment would be to provoke openly Adolf Hitler, who would also be provoked by any attempt to prove the assassin insane. Thus far all Grynszpan...
...tomorrow brings the biggest single athletic event of every Harvard scholastic year--the Yale game. Vag would like to speak now to some of the men on the team--particularly to those who will enter their last gridiron battle tomorrow--the footballers of the Class of 1939. So pardon him, please...
...best violent, violence crowds his books. In Man's Hope, as in his previous work, he writes most intensely of those moments when hope has finally vanished from men's lives-when the revolution has failed or the plans fallen through, when escape has been frustrated, pardon refused, when even suicide has been prevented and nothing remains but the certainty of execution. The questions that haunt his novels like a strain of sombre music are these: What happens to men when they know they will die with no chance to struggle against their fate? How do they meet...