Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...people, most of them, smell of life and their behavior smacks of truth. Miles apart as in many ways they are, Agee, like Chekhov, really substituted feeling for drama, like Chekhov tinged sadness with humor, and showed a compassion that though it might not acquit errant beings, would always pardon them. It is for such things that All the Way Home, whatever its inadequacies, has more small coins of pure silver to offer, and less stage money than any other American play this season...
...second pastoral letter was read, the choir of one Puerto Rican Church sang an Easter hymn, "Pardon, Pardon." The choir-mistress explained: if the people are wrong in voting for the governor, they need the pardon; if not, the priests need...
...candidate, North Dakota's Representative William Lemke, polled a mere 891,000 out of 44,000,000 votes. Later, for refusing to answer a congressional committee, Townsend was sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt. But Franklin Roosevelt recognized the portents of martyrdom, granted him "an unsolicited pardon...
...news enterprise. It was the first to expose kickbacks at Houston's city-owned farmer's market, the first to report police shakedowns on small businessmen, the first to note scandals in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in Tex as, the first to spotlight a state pardon and parole board racket...
...same moment as a young freshman from California, Richard Nixon. Their paths were destined to cross again. In three lackluster terms in the House, Jack kept his distance from the machine-tooled Massachusetts delegation (he was the only member to refuse to sign a petition for a presidential pardon for the doughty James Michael Curley, his grandfather Fitzgerald's ancient political rival-then languishing in jail for mail fraud). In 1952 Jack was ready to play for higher stakes. At the clan councils he toyed with the idea of running for the governorship, but eventually decided to make...