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...wife named Rose, a son named Dante, a little daughter named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...
...suspect that, after all, there may "be a reason" for letters like the "famed" X. Y. Z. W. Something-Somethingelse's.f To one who fully realizes the beauty "swan-song" and the aptness inventor in of the "swan dirge" expression stands on a level with the Havana flower peddler, who sprays his roses with cheap synthetic perfume. K. DAHLBERG Coral Gables, Fla. Mention...
...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...
...Vanzetti, have you anything to say. . . ?" The fish peddler was an orator: "Yes, what I say is that I am innocent. ... I have never stole, never killed, never spilled blood . . . but I have struggled all my life, since I began to reason, to eliminate crime from the earth. . . . What we have suffered during these seven years no human tongue can say, and yet you see me before you, not trembling, you see me looking you in your eyes straight, not blossoming, not changing color, not ashamed or in fear. . . . "We know that you [Judge Thayer] have spoke your hostility against...
...British Parliament demanded immediate freedom for them. Breadmakers and taxi-drivers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and laborers in many another land went on protest strikes. Heavy guards were posted at the U. S. Department of State and at Judge Thayer's home. . . . And, meanwhile, the fish peddler and the shoemaker sat in jail, fumbling with martyrdom. They have two hopes: a technicality leading to the U. S. Supreme Court, a pardon by Governor Fuller...