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...themes. His notion that a nation deserves the Government it gets was put to prose in Both Your Houses which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933; put to poetry in Valley Forge, which won him a critical A for Effort. In 1928 Playwright Anderson became agitated about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, collaborated with Harold Hickerson on an indignant defense of the accused called Gods of the Lightning. With that celebrated cause still in mind, Mr. Anderson has now fashioned Winterset...
Died. William Goodrich Thompson, 70, indefatigable defense counsel for executed Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti, whose cause he adopted in 1924 (three years after their conviction) and carried valiantly until final defeat in 1927; in Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...sooner had all Moscow's fire apparatus failed to put out the Krassin Pencil Factory conflagration in which 29 Russians were burned to death last week than the State rushed surviving employes over to the Sacco & Vanzetti Pencil Factory where they were put to work as an extra shift...
...showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch (see p. 48). showed a panel of photographs of the destroyed Rivera-Rockefeller murals. A picture of a clock stopped at 9 o'clock referred to the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti...
...other photographic War horrors taken whole from The Horror of It (TIME, March 21, 1932). The other panel shows a row of blue-clad factory girls apparently chained to a stamping machine, nine young Negroes to represent the seven "Scottsboro boys,'' Tom Mooney in jail, and Sacco & Vanzetti in electrode masks at the moment of their execution...