Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benchley's affidavit formed, with four other affidavits, part of a petition sent last week to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts by Mr. Vanzetti. Mr. Sacco refused to sign the petition, calling it inconsistent with his anarchistic principles. Dr. Abraham Myerson, Boston psychiatrist, said that Mr. Sacco's seven years of confinement had "brought about an abnormal state in which his [radical] fanaticism has been intensified into an obsession." In spite of Mr. Sacco's refusal to sign, the petition was presented as a joint plea from both the condemned...
...York World said: "What comes out of all these statements is a picture not of a judge but of an agitated little man looking for publicity and utterly impervious to the ethical standards one has the right to expect of a man presiding in a capital case." Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller studied the Sacco-Vanzetti petition, said his mind was not made up on what procedure to follow. He received from Chicago a lurid deaththreat. It read: "Hon. Alvin: "If you will execute Sacco and Vanzetti, we are going to murder you, all of your family and turn your home...
Personalities. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover headed a flood commission appointed by the President. Henry M. Baker, Red Cross Director of Relief, supervised Red Cross work. One-time Governor John M. Parker of Louisiana was appointed by Mr. Hoover as flood relief director in his state, was aided by present Governor Oramel Hinkley Simpson...
Married. Helen Nancy ("Peggy") Green, 19, daughter of Governor Fred Warren Green of Michigan, to Norval Tyrell, managing editor of the The Wolverine, Michigan College year hook; by elopement, at Bowling Green, Ohio. Governor Green telegraphed: "You surprised us a little...
...episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides him. Soon the sheriff comes. In a ludicrous trial, Kit is ac quitted to the great discomfiture of ogreish District Attorney Sprinkle Kit's companions in theft get a pardon from the governor. Miss Siddons' madman reappears and is packed off to the asylum. Miss Siddons has her face fixed, her reputation mends slowly...