Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rejected evidence for a new trial on the grounds that there had not been a "failure of justice." Judge Webster Thayer, clad in black robes, with a face as still and as pallid as an ancient cameo, entered the courtroom to sentence Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. Bluecoats fingered sawed-off shotguns. Secret service agents with crimson rosettes in their lapels posed as Reds. Women sobbed. The clerk droned: "Nicola Sacco, have you anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon you?" In the prisoners' box, a clean-shaven Italian, with...
Before the Canadian House of Commons, at Ottawa, the Speaker, Rodolphe Lemieux, created a mild sensation last week by descending from the Chair and speaking as follows from the floor: "The Postmaster General and the Minister of Customs are both Christian gentlemen, and I hope they will confer together and devise some means to exclude from Canada the numerous pornographic newspapers and so-called 'tabloids' which are now being imported from the United States and sold on every street corner in the large Canadian cities...
...Canada, in 1906, and received his A.M. and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught at Clark College and was for two years a lecturer at Harvard. Soon after becoming an Associate Professor at Clark University, Professor Gras went to the University of Minnesota as Professor or Economic History, which chair he now holds...
...gossip, tales of little doings of important and unimportant people, is always half the news. In the small towns on the boarding house porches of lesser Broadways, rocking-chairs squeak out a dissonant and complaining chorus, thin-lipped ladies swell like croaking frogs into the temporary importance of unofficial news-mongers. Over bored back fences, down dumbwaiter pits, gossiping voices shrill. In cities, the churning presses of newspapers join the rocking-chair chorus, give the daily pabulum of gossip, dignified in print, to stenographer and businessman. Shanghai may fall, Prohibition flounder; the names of "Peaches," Chaplin, Rhinelander still strike responsive...
...fate of Sacco and Vanzetti, like that of Dreyfus, early in the trial ceased to be the important aspect of the case. Whether or not they go to the electric chair, even in their own minds, long ago, has ceased to be as important as whether or not criminal trials are to be decided on the evidence or on race and class prejudice. Dreyfus was convicted of high treason, not because he committed high treason, but because he was a Jew; and there are many people in the present case who believe that Sacco and Vanzetti have been convicted...