Word: sacco-vanzetti
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Laski, who left Harvard under pressure following the Sacco-Vanzetti case, last spoke here when he attended a CRIMSON banquet in 1933. As yet he has not been engaged to speak under the University's auspices during his stay in Cambridge...
...Brandeis' appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court for "lack of judicial temperament" did not deter him from getting himself into hot water again by proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard and barring Negroes from freshmen dormitories. He went on to become embroiled in the Sacco-Vanzetti case as the target of libertarians' scorn. Last year, when he demanded that the Government suppress sitdown strikes, Massachusetts Labor sharply reminded him of Harvard's underpaid scrubwomen. Latest scorching for white-mustached old Dr. Lowell was the revocation last year of his automobile driving license, after...
...York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between...
...drama built around the after effects of a miscarriage of justice in a situation paralleling the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Winterset starts with a quick outline of a 1920 payroll robbery. Three gangsters - Trock Estrella (Eduardo Ciannelli), Shadow (Stanley Ridges), and Garth Esdras (Paul Guilfoyle) - steal a car that belongs to Bartolomeo Romagna. After they have murdered the paymaster, they abandon the car. Romagna, partly because he is a radical, is convicted of the crime. His small son is standing on the hill above the prison the night he dies in the electric chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear...
Charges made by three Harvard graduates that pamphlets mailed to delegates and professors at the Harvard Tercentenary were destroyed were denied by University officials yesterday. The pamphlets entitled "Walled in the Tomb" were directed against President-emeritus Lowell for his stand in the Sacco-Vanzetti case and were mailed by Varian Fry '30, Quincy Howe '21, and Gardner Jackson...