Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Winthrop House team journeying to Braintree to play Thayer Academy, and three other games scheduled, House Football officially opens its season today. Eliot House will meet Leverett, Adams will face Lowell, and Kirkland House will play the Ramblers, in the other opening encounters today...
...middle of the night, a bomb placed under the rear porch wrecked the Worcester, Mass, home of 74-year-old Judge Webster B. Thayer, smashed hundreds of windows in the neighborhood, roused the entire city. Five years ago Judge Thayer condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty...
Blue (2.30) Cox, Tobey; Stroke, Cummin; 7, Schloss; 6, Lee; 5, Mallinckrodt; 4, Angel; 3, Hoyt; 2, Thayer; Bow, Plumb...
...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...