Word: sacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when liberal and radical elements in Europe as well as the U.S. were stirred by the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he was consul at Geneva. One night an ominous crowd gathered in front of the consulate, shouted imprecations against "American killers." Tuck listened for a while, then slipped out to join the crowd, shouted in flawless French: "Give us the head of the American consul...
Poll-Tax State. Liberals rushed to his defense. Among them was John F. Finerty, prominent corporation lawyer and civil-libertarian. Suave, greying, publicity-shy Mr. Finerty had fought in other causes: notably for Sacco & Vanzetti, Tom Mooney...
Playwright Thurber's hopelessly human hero is a blurting young English professor (Henry Fonda) who gets branded a Red because he wants to read one of Vanzetti's (of Massachusetts' Sacco & Vanzetti) letters to his class. The battle is joined when one of his wife's (Olivia de Havilland) old football-playing beaux, Joe the Twirler (Jack Carson), arrives at Midwestern U. for the big game...
...Dartmouth men firmly believed that it was Hoppy who saw to it that they were served by a reliable bootlegger. He let no one bully his liberal professors. When an irate alumnus offered Hoppy $50,000 if he would fire a professor who had denounced the conduct of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial by Judge Webster Thayer (a Dartmouth man), Hoppy told the professor about it. The professor fumed. Said Hoppy: "Don't get excited. If you quit, I will too, and we'll split...
...which the janitor was nearly beaten to death. As it was, he lost the sight of both eyes. Apted nearly lost his job as a result of the affair, but retained it through wholehearted student support. Another incident is the threat against President Lowell's life during the Sacco-Vanzetti trial...