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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is more in the Sacco-Vanzetti case than is contained in a bare recital of its facts and dates. During one morning last week the first mail alone brought to Governor Fuller 57 letters, some urging intercession, others protesting against intercession for Shoemaker Sacco, for Fish-peddler Vanzetti. Twenty-two members of the British Parliament cabled Governor Fuller, demanding a new trial, viewing with horror the approaching executions of two men whose guilt they question. Last week 7,000 New Yorkers gathered in Union Square, roared "Stop the murder of Sacco & Vanzetti." In London, in Paris, in The Hague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Pardon? | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Complicated tortured, partly dimmed by the passage of seven years is the problem which Governor Fuller must analyze. As against the allegations discussed above, he will doubtless consider the facts that Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, tried by a jury of their peers, were found guilty; that Trial Judge Webster Thayer, before whom have come repeated petitions for a new trial has steadfastly refused to consider any of the matter contained in these petitions as important enough to justify reopening th? case. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has also refused to allow appeals taken from the verdict arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Pardon? | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Donaldsonville. being promised a 10% dividend by Hon. J. S. Shingler, multi-millionaire of Ashburn, Ga., and its president." Mrs. Felton then told how -she had not received one cent of dividends and how she had appealed to the State banking commission, to the State Supreme Court, to the Governor. They did nothing to help her. "I feel that I have been gagged, hogtied and delivered," said Mrs. Felton. "May God strengthen your ("newspaper! arm in your fight for a law that will give women and children and all depositors better protection than they now have for funds they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Felton v. Bankers | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Samuel Untermyer, able Manhattan lawyer, now on a round-the-world cruise, stopped in Manila for two days, talked with Governor General Leonard Wood, found the Philippines "bristling with complications." Also, said Mr. Untermyer, "I found less interest among the natives than I expected on the question of independence, except among the politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Miscellaneous Mentions: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Mussolini is an impostor! As the illegal Capo del Governor [Head of the State] he is stamping upon Liberty and the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caged Bravo | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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