Word: sacco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of April 15, 1920, two men shot and killed a paymaster and a company guard in the course of a $16,000 payroll robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. More than seven years later, two Italien aliens named Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electrocuted for this crime, following one of the longest and most sensational cases in the history of American criminal law. The Sacco-Vanzetti ease aroused violent popular feeling all over the world. For years the liberal and radical elements of America and Europe were engaged in a roaring battle of words with the judiciary and administration...
...Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti" Edmund M. Morgan of the Harvard Law School, a top expert on the law of evidence, and G. Louis Joughin of the New School for Social Research have combined to write what is undoubtedly the most detailed and comprehensive study of the case and its affects. In separate and yet dovetailing sections of the book, the authors have examined the highly complicated legal aspects together with the resulting sociological reflections...
...usual outlets of public opinion--newspaper columns, speeches, meetings, petitions, and floods of letters to the authorities. The pros and cons were divided into what Dos Passes called "Two Nations," and Professor Joughin uses this phrase as a title. It is interesting to note that the popular antipathy to Sacco and Vanzetti decreased roughly in proportion to the increase in distance from New England. In New York and Paris thousands of sympathizers rioted in the streets, but in Boston the fear of radicalism and the belief that Massachusetts justice was being hamstrung by "foreign" propaganda, caused a large majority...
Professor Joughin winds up his contribution with two moving chapters devoted to the personalities of Sacco and Vanzetti, and a final chapter entitled "The Legacy of Literature: Faith," which deals with the first historical judgments on the case...
...writing "The Legacy of Sacco and Vauzetti" the authors have not only brought the objective and non-partisan substance of this vitally important chapter of recent history between the covers of one volume; they have also pioneered in the presentation of the effect specific legal action has on culture and therefore on society. The sharp contrast between the sober opinions of lawyers and judges, and the emotional cries of poets, novelists, and playwrights gives the reader a powerful three-dimensional picture of the event. This book is a major contribution to history, sociology...