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President Lowell was a member of the so-called Lowell Commission appointed by former governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts to examine the evidence submitted to Judge Webster Thayer in the famed Sacco-Vanzetti case. Acting in accordance with the commission's findings, Governor Fuller refused to take any executive action in the line of pardoning the convicted men or commuting their death sentences. Fuller and Judge Robert Grant of Boston, also a member of the investigating commission, were guarded along with President Lowell. The third member, President Stratton of M.I.T., has since died...
...Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles A. Cannon (towels), Samuel Clay Williams (Reynolds Tobacco), A. D. Geoghegan (Wesson Oil), Fred Wesley Sargent (Chicago & Northwestern), John Stuart (Quaker Oats), Fred Pabst (Cheese), Alvan Macauley (Packard), Frank Chambless Rand (International Shoe), Robert L. Lund (Listerine), Charles Donnelly (Northern Pacific), Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (lumber), Carl Raymond Gray (Union Pacific), William Stamps Farish (Humble Oil), Frederick Lockwood Lipman (Wells Fargo), Paul Shoup (Southern Pacific...
...condemned to death in 1927 for murdering a South Braintree paymaster and his guard. While not of their defense counsel, he bitterly attacked the legal operations which sent them to the electric chair. One who had not forgotten this phase of Felix Frankfurter's career was onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, who refused clemency to Sacco & Vanzetti. Rankled, he said last week: "With Ely pardoning murderers and Frankfurter, an open sympathizer with murderers, on the Supreme bench, I see no reason why murder should not flourish here in Massachusetts...
...Other votes: U. S. Minister to Canada Mac-Xider, 182 3/4; General Harbord, 161 3/4; Alvan Fuller, onetime Governor of Massachusetts, 57; Snell, 56; all others, 55 1/2 absent...
...Field, H. A. Fierst, B. L. FitzGerald, William Floyd, B. S. Foss, Howard Foster, Maurice Franks, N. S. Green, J. T. Back, A. B. Hallowell, H. G. Hanan, Richmond Harrison, B. C. Hart, George Haskins, E. W. Bolmes, L. R. Houston, C. S. Houston, D. W. Hull, Alvan Hyde, F. E. Johnson, A. M. Kelley, F. W. Knowlton, Robert Kramer, Amory Lawrence, W. D. Lewis...