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Nicola Sacco, convicted over a year ago with Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the murder of a paymaster and his guard in Boston, has been on hunger strike for sixteen days and is said to be showing signs of weakness. The Sacco-Vanzetti case attracted international attention because the two Italian defendants are well-known radicals and received aid, comfort, and propaganda support from all over the world. The Labor Defense Committee, which is the chief agency fighting for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, charges that they were " framed " by the police because they were radicals and that they were convicted...
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are Italians by birth, the former a shoe worker, the latter an eel seller, who were for many years aggressive in solidifying Italian workingmen in demands for higher wages. Both men were friends of Andrea Salredo, who last year plunged to his death from the 14th story of a building where he was confined by the Department of Justice. Two days after his death they both were arrested. They were connected with two hold-ups and sentenced; their supporters claim that they had nothing to do with the hold-ups, but were victims...
Among the Italian masters shown are Sano di Pietro, Filippino Lippi, Perugino, Spinallo Aretino, Parmigiano, Vivarini, Carpaccio, Domenico Campagnola, and Bartolomeo Montagna. The exhibition contains two sketches by Raphael, one by Benvenuto Cellini, and four by Michelangelo...
...Among these books are several valumes from the press of Peter Schoeffer, three or four from that of Mentelin at Strasburg, the representatives of those of Ulrich Zell, Arnold Terhoernen and Bartholomaeus de Unket at Cologne, Zainer and Sorg at Augsburg, Creussmer and Koburger at Nuremberg, of Bartolomeo di Cremona, Ratdolf, John of Cologne and Scotus at Venice, of Caxton and Wynkyn de Norde and Pynson and Berthelet in England and of many other famous presses throughout Europe. Especially represented among these early books are those which throw light upon the development of natural science. Such are the editions...