Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, the Welt Am Abend, radical sheet, snarled: "Next week the Mayor of New York, Jazz Walker, ally of" Fuller [Governor of Massachusetts] intends to visit Berlin. The gentleman should turn back. He wants to be received here Wednesday. We do not receive murderers...
They docketed the case for review by the highest court in the country hoping a) to give Governor Fuller of Massachusetts grounds for a further reprieve since the case was still, technically, before a court; and b) to give any one of the nine Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court opportunity to request a review of the case, which request would have given Governor Fuller broader grounds for a reprieve...
Warden Hendry then informed the three prisoners that Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts had granted them a 12-day respite from death to allow the courts to consider petitions for a new trial...
...trial for Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti rested chiefly on the appeal which Arthur D. Hill, their head counsel, prepared to make before the supreme judiciary court of Massachusetts on the grounds that Judge Webster Thayer exhibited prejudice during the murder trial. But it was on the mercy of Governor Fuller that many a Sacco & Vanzetti sympathizer pinned his hopes. Leading U. S. newspapers, even the most conservative Foreign Journals, urged clemency. An example?the venerable Spectator in England said: "Certain facts make us feel that justice in the strict sense of the word would be truly served either by the release...
Boston Disturbers. Before Governor Fuller granted a respite to Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti the streets of Boston contained a number of persons who annoyed the police. Edward Holton James, nephew of the late famed Philosopher William James and Novelist Henry James, attended a Sacco & Vanzetti mass meeting on the Boston Common. Smartly dressed, neatly barbered, looking more like a distinguished professor emeritus than a boisterous radical nephew, James shouted: "Down with the police!*, assaulted a bluecoat, was promptly arrested. Refusing to plead the charges against him he told the court that he would not stand up "before murderers whether they...