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Academic freedom again on the block Harvard sent President Lowell on one side of the Sacco Vanzetti case, which rocked five continents, and Professor Felix Frankfurter to testify on the other. Totally disagreed, the two did not attempt to harass each other's professional status...
...friends are Communists he is not a member of any party. Unlike such writers as Upton Sinclair, Dos Passos is more of an artist than an agitator. He was one of the artists, writers arrested in Boston in 1927 for protesting publicly against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.* Dos Passos has many friends, no intimates. He is the original of "Hugo Bamman" in Critic Edmund Wilson's novel, I Thought of Daisy (TIME, Oct. 7). Tall, anxious-browed, bald, nearsighted, monkey-gestured, he is excessively shy, extremely polite, chivalrous, stammers, cannot pronounce the letter R. Said never...
During the Sacco-Vanzetti trial this law, which gives practical power of arbitrary arrest was exercised for the purpose of obtaining witnesses and under it teachers of sciences denying the creation of the world as described in the Bible and the creation of man are liable to punishment...
Gardner Jackson, onetime chairman of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense, made investigations and reported...
...Sunday-school man," blood (TIME, June 17). When the defense succeeded in moving the trial of the 16 defendants-young union textile workers including six Communists from the North -from hysterical Gastonia to calmer Charlotte, the mob subsided. Radical Labor, muttering that here was another Sacco-Vanzetti case, had less to say. Melodrama was the introduction. A bulky something was wheeled in before the jury. The covering was whipped off to reveal a wax dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling...