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...Wednesday, Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii passed through probably the most difficult crisis of his official career. According to legal requirements, any leniency to the Massie defendants must come through him. The court was powerless to carry out the jury's recommendation for clemency, and unless immediate executive commutation intervened, all four prisoners would be forced to pay the penalty for their crime. And while Governor Judd knew well that native sentiment demanded punishment and would react disagreeably to undue leniency, he was influenced even more by expressions of American opinion which reached him. The Governor was not only...
...community of cabbage-growing Dutch-American yokels where Selina goes to teach school, she finds the velvet worn thin. She marries a farmer. When he dies, she struggles to give her son advantages that eventually make him ashamed of her. Become almost a clod herself, she is finally powerless to show him why he should be working in an architect's office for $35 a week instead of grubbing greedily in the stock market. Selina's only triumph comes, not from her son, but from an artist who, long before, had understood her assertion that cabbage-fields were...
Mount Collalto, key position of the battle front, is held by Austrian troops. The Italians capture the Austrian town at the base of the mountain, but their many attacks upon and bombardments of the peak are futile. Without its capture they are powerless to advance. In desperation they undertake to bore under the peak to dynamite it. The defending Austrians learn of the Italian strategy but dare not relinquish their position. They listen to the sound of the drilling beneath them, not knowing when they will be blown to bits. Florian (Luis Trenker) is an Austrian soldier, a native...
Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Minority Leader Snell and Acting Chairman Crisp of the Ways & Means Committee were all powerless to stop the rowdy stampede. Weary and disheartened after a two-day drubbing, Chairman Crisp uprose to say: "I may be defeated but I'm never a quitter. I don't believe the House is in a proper frame of mind to legislate today. I think it would do us all good to have an opportunity to cool off and to think." Thereupon at his suggestion the House adjourned, laying the tax bill aside for three full days...
...obvious that the government in itself is powerless. Indeed, the only effectual resource of the state for solving crimes is to ally itself with criminals, and never before has that alliance been so shameless. That the American people, moreover, should be willing and even eager to harbor and canonize one kidnapper because he will help them catch another, shows the government is no more than an expression of the popular ideal. When criminals take crime into their own hands there is nothing remarkable, but when outlaws get control of law, and both government and people subscribe, there...