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Similarly George V might ask Calvin Coolidge to pardon an Englishman. Promptly Il Re granted the request of Il Papa, last week, by advice of Il Duce, who is anxious to cement in every possible way the new Italo-Papal accord (TIME, Feb. 18). Presumably the priests freed under Civil Law will be retried under Canon Law, and, if convicted, clapped back into civil jails...
...other is a symbol of emancipation from the monotonous machinery of the modern institution of learning. Not to be outshone, the Wellesley intellectual blows smoke rings in the safety of a Boston and Albany compartment while she devours Kantian theory and considers herself the apotheosis of the new woman freed from the shackles of boring official pronunciamentos...
...change is to be made, the interest of the people as a whole is paramount," continued Professor Beale. "Reasons against the proposed change are: the weakening of the defenses against murder, if the punishment is not thought adequate; prisoners would expect to be and frequently are freed before their term ends; capital punishment alone cannot be avoided, as imprisonment can be by release after the public has forgotten the crime...
...that was not what freed him. He made his "escape" by selling his collection of rare books, worth more than $1,000,000, a notable trove of the printer's and publisher's art. While the sale was in progress, Mr. Kern explained: "As my collection has grown, books have not only fascinated me, they have enslaved me. As rare books became rarer I battled for them, treasured them, and so became a collector. . . . Somehow I could not think of my books ever being sold by anyone else, even after my death, and in a flash...
...throwing out the verdict in favor of the McLaughlins. The McLaughlins could not start another suit because Justice Cropsey in his decision had absolved the Greiner Contracting Co., Inc., of all blame. Since there were but two possible defendants to the suit?Greiner and Clarke?and both had been freed of blame, no other party could be sued. In its decision the Appellate Division flayed Justice Cropsey for his lifting blame off the Greiner company...