Word: vanzentti
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...type of person "one collects anecdotes about." Every now and then, however, he does enter non-academic forays. In 1947, for example, a group of professors organized a committee to present a plaque to the state for erection on Boston Common as a memory of Sacco and Vanzentti, the Boston fishpeddler and shoemaker who were convicted of murder in a trial that had nasty political overtones...
...School, and Eleanor Roosevelt to serve on a committee to present the plan to the Governor. But the plaque-backers were way of asking a Harvard official because President Lowell had been a member of a three-man board which reviewed and approved the sentences of Sacco and Vanzentti 1927. Presumably either in deference to Lowell or to alumni pressure, a Harvard official would decline to serve. Nevertheless someone approached Provost Buck, and to the Committee's surprise, he accepted. The proposal, however, never got any further than the Governor's office...
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