Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alvan Tufts Fuller, 80, onetime (1925-29) Republican governor of Massachusetts, who backed up the state judiciary, decided not to delay the electrocution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti beyond Aug. 23, 1927; in Boston. A wealthy auto dealer (Packard) and onetime (1917-21) U.S. Congressman, Fuller was beset by pressure from near and far to intervene in behalf of the condemned men. After he appointed a committee headed by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, which reviewed all testimony and supported the jury's decision that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of murder, the New York Times editorialized...
...sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath," Jesus admonished the Pharisees. This week Boston's venerable Unitarian King's Chapel will begin an experiment that might shock more than Pharisees: repeating Sunday's service on Thursday night for churchgoers who would rather spend Sunday playing golf, painting screens or driving bumper to bumper...
SALES LEAD among U.S. department stores went to 42-link Federated chain (Bloomingdale's of Manhattan, Abraham & Straus of Brooklyn, Filene's of Boston). Federated edged Allied Stores for first time, $635 million to $632 million in 1957, earned $25 million to Allied's $12.3 million...
Quincy House construction may be stopped by a strike this morning for the second time in a month. At 8 a.m., nearly 6000 carpenters employed in the Greater Boston area will walk off their jobs in a movement for higher wages...
...golfers from Penn State, one from Yale, and one from Boston College advanced to the semi-finals in match play yesterday. B.C.'s Charlie Volpone, who has been giving the Crimson a lot of trouble for the past few years, will face Ted Weiss of Yale today in the first semi-final match...