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...Webster Thayer, trial judge in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, held under death sentence (TIME, Sept. 27, Nov. 1, April 18, April 25) in the Dedham (Mass.) jail, refer during the trial to Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti as "those bastards"'? Did he say "a bunch of parlor radicals are trying to get those guys off," but that he "would show them and would get those guys hanged"? Did he add that "no Bolsheviki could intimidate Web Thayer," that he "would also like to hang a few dozen radicals...
...University minor sports teams were victorious, and two went down to defeat before their opponents on Saturday. The two former were the polo team which defeated Dedham, 6 to 3, and the lacrosse twelve which crushed Dartmouth with a 9 to 2 score. The tennis team was defeated 8 to 1, at the hands of Williams, and the golfers were worsted 7 to 2 by the University of Pennsylvania...
...University horsemen who played against Dedham Whites, showed great strength against their strong opposition. H. A. White '25 was a tower of strength for the Crimson scoring four goals, and breaking up his opponents plays with great skill. J. P. Cotton '28 at number two, and J. P. Mandell '29 at back, each scored a goal...
...signature to the petition headed by Dean Pound does not imply any criticism of Massachusetts' justice. I myself am a Pennsylvanian. I feel sure that had the Sacco Vanzetti case been tried in 1921 before a court and jury in any place in Pennsylvania, similar to Dedham, the unfortunate but necessary interjection of proof that the defendants were communists would have created such a prejudice against them that the would have been convicted upon even the flimsiest of evidence...
...Anatole France, Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, Fritz Kreisler, Albert Einstein protested against the injustice being done to the fish peddler and the shoemaker. . . . Mr. Sacco went on a month's hunger strike. . . . Mrs. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, wife of the U. S. Supreme Court Justice, turned over her Dedham home to Mrs. Sacco so that she could be near her husband and cook for him while he was in the Dedham (Mass.) jail. Last week in a Dedham courtroom, there was a scene, wherein seven years of emotion simmered and boiled over. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts had finally...