Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trend of events last week continued to offer no encouragement to Sacco-Vanzetti adherents. There had been not the slightest official indication that the case has taken an unfavorable turn for the condemned men, but both the prisoners themselves and their defense committee had seemingly lost faith in Governor Fuller and his advisory committee. The most striking evidence of their pessimism had been the continuation of their hunger strike. Mr. Sacco had been on his hunger strike since July 17; Mr. Vanzetti had been virtually fasting for the same period, though he at least drank coffee during the first...
...Governor Fuller and his Advisory Committee both completed their investigation and the Governor announced an early decision. Then came another delay in the long delayed case when Alvan T. Fuller Jr., the Governor's 12-year-old son, was stricken with appendicitis and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for an operation. The operation was successfully performed, but Governor Fuller not unnaturally had his attention diverted from the Sacco-Vanzetti case by his son's illness...
...Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti. For the pendulum that has for seven years swung between life and death last week swung toward death again. Since the publication of sensational affidavits alleging unfairness by Trial-Judge Webster Thayer (TIME, May 16) and the investigation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case by Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts and his Advisory Committee (TIME, June 13), those sympathetic with the convicted men have been encouraged to hope for pardon or commutation. But last week's events, though not necessarily conclusive, led many observers to believe that the death sentence imposed on Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti...
...Theodore Wallen, of the New York Herald Tribune staff, big, fat and slick looking? He was so described last week by Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota, in an interview published in the New York Times. The Governor, a Democrat, felt that he had been misquoted by Mr. Wallen, who had attributed to him a "feeling" that President Coolidge would be reelected...
...Said Governor Bulow: "... A big, fat, slick-looking man walked up to me and said his name was Wallen and that he was from New York. ... He seemed to know all about my folks. He led me to believe that he was acquainted with President Coolidge and Senator Norbeck. He talked like a powerful smart man. . . . He told me a lot about politics that I never knew before. I occasionally said yes, yes, to the things he was telling me, in order to keep him going and tell me more...