Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jail. Last week in a Dedham courtroom, there was a scene, wherein seven years of emotion simmered and boiled over. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts had finally and flatly rejected evidence for a new trial on the grounds that there had not been a "failure of justice." Judge Webster Thayer, clad in black robes, with a face as still and as pallid as an ancient cameo, entered the courtroom to sentence Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. Bluecoats fingered sawed-off shotguns. Secret service agents with crimson rosettes in their lapels posed as Reds. Women sobbed. The clerk...
...from the earth. . . . What we have suffered during these seven years no human tongue can say, and yet you see me before you, not trembling, you see me looking you in your eyes straight, not blossoming, not changing color, not ashamed or in fear. . . . "We know that you [Judge Thayer] have spoke your hostility against us with friends of yours on the train, at the University Club of Boston, on the golf club of Worcester, Mass. I am sure that if the people who know all what you say against us would have the civil courage to take the stand...
...impartial investigation of their case. Twenty-two members of the British Parliament demanded immediate freedom for them. Breadmakers and taxi-drivers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and laborers in many another land went on protest strikes. Heavy guards were posted at the U. S. Department of State and at Judge Thayer's home. . . . And, meanwhile, the fish peddler and the shoemaker sat in jail, fumbling with martyrdom. They have two hopes: a technicality leading to the U. S. Supreme Court, a pardon by Governor Fuller...
...Supreme Court, strange to say, was not passing on the value of that evidence. It limited itself to a special question. It enquired only whether Judge Thayer is open to judicial criticism for denying the motion for a new trial. The question whether judge Thayer, assuming him to be an intelligent and conscientious judge, could conceiviably have regarded the new evidence as immaterial. If so, the Court would not order a new trial, even though it may have believed to a man that the new evidence was worth bringing before a jury. The Supreme Court was simply unwilling to declare...
...When Appleton was built, it was naturally expected that two buildings to correspond to Hollis and Stoughton would be constructed where Thayer now is, leaving a vista from the front of the chapel between them and through to Holden Chapel. When Thayer was built, however, it not only spoiled the vista, but was set so far back that it overwhelmed Appleton Chapel...