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Last week sympathizers with Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti thought they saw a rescue party starting out for an eleventh hour salvation of the two men who are scheduled to occupy the electric chair during the week of July...
This choice specimen of local inanity appeared last night in the columns of the Transcript as a portion of the letter written to Governor Fuller by another gentleman interested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, namely, one Chandler Hovey, stock-broker. On a day when college professors and men from the world of business meet to dedicate the new buildings of the School of Business Administration such maladroit cerebration loses its humor in its speciousness...
...fact that he is a stock broker, a Bostonian. One of the most pleasing of modern phenomena is that of the interest which business men, college professors, men from all the categories of current existence, have taken in the finer points of this attempt to probe the Sacco-Vanzetti case in search of the truth...
...close an interest in legal lumber may blind the judiciary to the merits of the individual trees of the forest. The English Cabinet System, disclaiming the principle of checks and balances upon which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense is appealing to the Governor, nevertheless guards against too close a perspective by mingling expert under-secretaries with non-expert politician in administering its public business...
Governor Fuller deserves praise for his latest decision in the review of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, both because he has seen fit to seek unofficial advice and because of the excellence of his choice. The three men chosen are eminently "respectable"--with no tinge of radicalism, no public favor to seek, and no political axe to grind. One of them is himself a member of the judiciary; another has been a member of the bar; all are men of many interests, without the fatal taint of narrowmindedness. Their appointment should reassure all but those who want the "dignity...