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...makings of another Sacco-Vanzetti or Mooney-Billings case were nipped coldly when the jury in a Queens County Court declared Athos Terzani, taxi driver with a mission, not guilty of the murder of his friend Anthony Fierro. Both good leftists, they went to a meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America, during which meeting a riot inadvertently began, as a result of which riot comrade Fierro ceased to be a danger to American fascism. Terzani was arrested; there was the prescribed amount of cooked-up evidence, lax investigation of complete facts, desire on the part of the prosecutor...
...courses are open, none of them inviting. The first is to disregard the overwhelming evidence for the defense, and convict the Communists, or at least Torgler, who is the only German of the accused. But the uproar which would follow this decision would make of it a second Sacco-Vanzetti case. In his statements Torgler has not only cleared himself but displayed remarkable courage, sincerity, and intelligence. The second choice is acquittal. But the implication of this is to divert the charge from the Communists to--whom? A Soviet radio station repeats every evening a simple, insinuating question to German...
...high place in future academic circles. His mistakes were many, but his contributtions to education more than offset these mistakes. Where the University was concerned President Lowell exercised a wise discretion, but he was not always careful in expressing personal feelings. President Lowell's handling of the Sacco-Vanzetti case is critized, as well as his attitude toward racial differences. Angoff gives President Lowell praise for his defense of academic freedom of thought especially in wartime, and for the incalcation of his own intellectual standards...
...derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every...
...know what he said and I don't want to know." Because of the judge's reputation as a liberal, one of the first lawyers to rush to his defense was Boston's William G. Thompson who once served as chief counsel in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Likewise members of the Boston Bar whose fathers and grandfathers were Abolitionists gave him warm support. But not so Governor Ely who declared: "Any fugitive will be deluding himself to think that Massachusetts will prove a refuge for all those who might be able to fight extradition along the lines...