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...drop out of the class of 1906 for lack of money to continue at the Annex and ill health, Miss Brewerton became a court stenographer, won an appointment to the staff of the Norfolk-Plymouth Superior Court in Dedham, reported some famous trials, including that of Sacco and Vanzetti, and on retirement reentered college...
...recklessly mingled details." In the portraits, every detail counted. The elaborate flowered background lent a heavy air of luxury to his portrait of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller. John had hesitated at first to accept that commission because of Fuller's part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. ("Would his share in the tragedy invalidate him as a subject for my brush?") The question did not trouble him long...
...Scene, in 1921, of the murder trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti...
...Vanzetti's wish that their deaths might serve as a lesson so they would not have died in vain now echoes hollowly off the walls of the star-chamber, and the injustice of their execution draws a some-what less harsh parallel in other present denials of civil rights. The Bill of Rights may be aged but its vigor is occasionally renewed as when the Supreme Court stated in 1943 that, "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion...
...plaque in Boston Common where Sacco and Vanzetti once freely expressed their beliefs would recognize an old injustice that has long demanded recognition. But what is needed even more today is a plaque in each city and town of America as a warning that intolerance and denial of freedoms during moments of passion may be regretted in the later calm...