Word: nicolaes
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...former Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who left the papers to the University, was a member of a committee which reviewed the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti...
...Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 for the murders of a factory paymaster and guard during a robbery in 1920. Many people believe the two were convicted because of their anarchist beliefs. Lowell served on a committee formed to review the conviction...
...OPENING last week of papers relating to the Sacco-Vanzetti case--papers which once belonged to former Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877--may shed new light on the controversy which has swirled around the case since 1927, when the two self-proclaimed anarchists--Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti--were arrested, tried, convicted and executed in connection with a double murder that took place during a bank robbery...
Many historians hope the papers will shed new light on the circumstances surrounding the conviction and execution--on charges of committing two murders during a bank robbery--of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti some 50 years...
Bombs exploded and demonstrators round the world marched in protest on Aug. 23, 1927, the day Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in a Massachusetts electric chair. In the half-century since, the case of the "good shoemaker" and the "poor fish peddler" has continued to stir men's passions. Generations of Americans have wrangled bitterly over whether or not the two admitted anarchists were guilty of shooting two men during a holdup and whether they received a fair trial. Last week Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation officially stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had indeed been...