Word: pardons
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...Altgeld the essential factor about the Haymarket case was that the anarchists had not had a fair trial. Jurors had frankly admitted prejudice, and the record showed appalling contradictions. But when Altgeld said so in an 18,000-word pardon he was damned as a murderer, a communist, a demagogue, a foreigner, an anarchist, a thief, a liar, a madman, a knave, a fool, a bomb-thrower, a Nero and a coward...
...Francisco last July, René Belbenoit wrote Explorer William LaVarre in Manhattan, who took him East, arranged for publication of his book. His first job was to pass on the accuracy of Devil's Island scenes in The Life of Emile Zola. If he gets a pardon from the French Government, as he hopes, ex-Convict Belbenoit plans to go back to France, return to the U. S. under the quota...
...milestone in the weird marathon of his effort not to get out of jail-since he undoubtedly could get a parole-but to prove his innocence. The Assembly had subpoenaed Mooney because its strong labor bloc hoped that, if the whole body voted to give him a meaningless "legislative pardon," Governor Frank Merriam might give him a real pardon. Two days after hearing Convict Mooney, the Assembly went on record 41-10-29 as favoring a pardon, a few hours later the Senate defeated the motion almost unanimously and the chance that Governor Merriam might be influenced thereby seemed very...
...Pardon scratchy script-vessel is rolling...
...previous years, before the new Constitution, the Praesidium will rule Russia as the chief organ of Government, exercising by decree the executive and legislative functions, having the judicial right of pardon. But the Praesidium, once a roster of Russia's most distinguished Old Bolsheviks, now has a majority of New Bolsheviks, many so new in the Dictator's favor that they are quite unknown to the Russian people. Only one list of 37 names was offered as candidates for the Praesidium. An announcement was made in passing that this list had been prepared by the "Council of Elders...