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Both Cambridge and Harvard Yard police maintained a close guard over the home of President Lowell throughout last night. The President was one of three men prominent in the Sacco-Vanzetti case whose homes were thrown under police protection following news of the bombing of the residence of Judge Webater Thayer in Worcester yesterday morning...
President Lowell was a member of the so-called Lowell Commission appointed by former governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts to examine the evidence submitted to Judge Webster Thayer in the famed Sacco-Vanzetti case. Acting in accordance with the commission's findings, Governor Fuller refused to take any executive action in the line of pardoning the convicted men or commuting their death sentences. Fuller and Judge Robert Grant of Boston, also a member of the investigating commission, were guarded along with President Lowell. The third member, President Stratton of M.I.T., has since died...
Governor Ely acted with great courage in nominating Professor Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. For though Professor Frankfurter has many warm friends in this Commonwealth, he also has bitter enemies who have neither understood nor forgiven his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti affair. It is therefore highly gratifying to know that the Governor's Council had already acknowledged his peculiar fitness for the position before his decision to decline the appointment became known...
Four exhibits are scheduled for next fall. These will be, "Stage Sets and Costume Design", "Soviet Art", "Paintings and Sculptures by Harvard Students", and Ben Shahn's "Pictorial Treatment of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case...
Sitting at the very desk where he measured the fatal Sacco-Vanzetti bullets, with instruments accurate up to one ten-thousandth of an inch, Dr. Magrath affirmed the statement that no innocent person in his opinion, has ever been executed in Massachusetts for a crime he did not commit. The notorious "Bullet Number 3", responsible for the death of Parmenter, in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, was found to be grooved from a pit in the gun barrel, probably caused by rust. Such a pit was found in the gun of Sacco, and test slugs fired from it by investigators, here...