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Both Cambridge and Harvard Yard police maintained a close guard over the home of President Lowell throughout last night. The President was one of three men prominent in the Sacco-Vanzetti case whose homes were thrown under police protection following news of the bombing of the residence of Judge Webater Thayer in Worcester yesterday morning...
President Lowell was a member of the so-called Lowell Commission appointed by former governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts to examine the evidence submitted to Judge Webster Thayer in the famed Sacco-Vanzetti case. Acting in accordance with the commission's findings, Governor Fuller refused to take any executive action in the line of pardoning the convicted men or commuting their death sentences. Fuller and Judge Robert Grant of Boston, also a member of the investigating commission, were guarded along with President Lowell. The third member, President Stratton of M.I.T., has since died...
Governor Ely acted with great courage in nominating Professor Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. For though Professor Frankfurter has many warm friends in this Commonwealth, he also has bitter enemies who have neither understood nor forgiven his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti affair. It is therefore highly gratifying to know that the Governor's Council had already acknowledged his peculiar fitness for the position before his decision to decline the appointment became known...
...York. Five years later he was appointed law officer of the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs. In 1917-18 he was confidential assistant to Secretary of War Baker. Considerable notoriety attached itself to Professor Frankfurter as a result of his sympathy for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, radicals condemned to death in 1927 for murdering a South Braintree paymaster and his guard. While not of their defense counsel, he bitterly attacked the legal operations which sent them to the electric chair. One who had not forgotten this phase of Felix Frankfurter's career was onetime Governor...
...Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth, Governor Ely has stated what is well-known,--that Professor Frankfurter is heartily endorsed by such justices as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Brandeis, and Cardoso. He also makes plain that the new appointee's efforts were enlisted in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti through a conviction that the defendants were innocent, and not because of any sympathy with their political creed...