Word: vanzetti
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...South America, the volatile? and indolent?inhabitants of Paraguay and Argentina were easily persuaded to stop all work. But these "general strikes" lasted only two days. In Mexico, surprisingly, there was only a one-hour strike. There was rioting but allegedly not on account of Sacco & Vanzetti. A boycott of U. S. goods was vetoed by laborites...
...Masses. Heywood Broun, colyumist-at-large, last week wrote an article on the Sacco-Vanzetti case for New Masses, radical monthly published in Manhattan. New Masses, counting on the large Broun following reading the New York World, from which Mr. Broun recently retired because that newspaper refused to print two of his articles on the same case, submitted to the World an advertisement. The World wrote to New Masses: "We decline to publish [the advertisement] because the advertisement is misleading in its implication that the New Masses is publishing an article written by Mr. Broun and rejected by the World...
...after the Sacco-Vanzetti execution the Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' sheetlet published in Manhattan by Bernarr Macfadden, blazed on the newsstands with a huge headline...
SACCO AND VANZETTI ROASTED ALIVE...
...degrees in the shade when you complain of the heat and you get some idea how cultured and conservative Massachusetts roasts her murderers alive. . . . And how these Bostonians get a dead man out of the chair! . . . Elliott . . . started to put on the electrode and now I observed that Vanzetti was getting nervous. . . . There was a sickening stench of scorched flesh in the abattoir. Vanzetti's neck was slowly but surely turning to a blood red and the jugular veins were doubling up in knots...