Word: sacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shades, No Smoking. He brought Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to Smith, ardently defended Sacco and Vanzetti. In a notable free speech fight in 1926, he stuck by faculty member Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, who was under fire for writing a book which absolved Germany of a good portion of World War I guilt and spread the blame over the other powers. Said Neilson in 1927: "The question . . . has always seemed to me to be not 'Are [Professor X's] views correct?' but 'Can the college afford to suppress him or his views at the cost...
...years, and then joined the Atlantic staff. In those days the self-assured calm of the monthly had not attained the heroic proportions that recently made a semi-scandal out of color-of-cover innovations. Morrison indirectly participated in three memorable episodes when the Atlantic published Felix Frankfurter's Sacco-Vanzetti case analysis that stirred up a new trial, copious New Salem Lincolniana that later proved completely "cooked up," and Al Smith's "hot" literary rebuttal to a challenge of his right to run for governor that was stolen in the proof sheets and published prematurely by a Boston newspaper...
...cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...
...Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court for "lack of judicial temperament," for proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard as an anti-anti-Semitic move during the Ku Klux rampage of 1922, for barring Negroes from freshman dormitories. He was internationally damned for his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1927 at the request of Massachusetts' worried Governor Alvan T. Fuller, LowelLand two others* reviewed the trial of the two anarchists, declared them fairly judged and, in effect, sent them to the electric chair amid worldwide uproar...
Those who haven't let their minds be dulled by overexposure to culture will realize, moreover, that training isn't necessary, though it helps. Good jazz, the best jazz, is only too often like the Sacco-Vanzetti letters. They are not masterpieces of grammar, but of literature, slices of life that echo endlessly in the channels of your conscious and subconscious...