Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Treasury, continued his pleasure cruise on the yacht Venezia. At Venice, Count Giuseppe Volpi, Italian Minister of Finance, suave, Vandyke-bearded, came on board. They-the richest men in politics in two nations-chatted quietly, shunned weighty subjects. Count Volpi made his fortune in trading companies, was once Governor of Tripoli, has (as Minister of Finance) raised the value of the lira and drawn up the Italian Debt Settlements...
...Governor Harry Flood Byrd, brother of Flyer Byrd, stood in the open air amphitheatre at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.). Behind him were distant backgrounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Before him were fellow Virginians and assembled dele gates to the newly established Institute of Public Affairs. Governor Byrd, following the purpose of the Institute to discuss U. S. political problems, spoke of re-organization of state and county governments, stressed the necessity for removal of legal deadwood. He suggested one session of every legislature in the country devoted solely to re pealing worn-out laws...