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...decay of culture about the time of the death of Emerson, the growth of the influence of the Watch and Ward Society, the entire absence of a drama or literature worthy of the name, a court system distinguished by the Sacco-Vanzetti case--was anything new needed as an addition to the list of horrors in this state to give point to a recent suggestion that Harvard College be moved to Dayton, Tenn.? The new atrocity, at any rate is here--noted in your news columns of Friday May 13, with the announcement that vaccination is to be a requisite...
...Wrench Co., Worcester, Mass., at the Worcester Golf Club. Mr. Goes, said Mr. Benchley, repeated Judge Thayer's remarks to him (Benchley). But Mr. Goes last week "flatly denied" the truth of Mr. Benchley's affidavit; recalled no conversation in which Judge Thayer flayed Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti; said: "I have known Judge Thayer since 1908. I have never heard him use language that he could not repeat in mixed company and I have played golf with...
...Benchley's affidavit formed, with four other affidavits, part of a petition sent last week to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts by Mr. Vanzetti. Mr. Sacco refused to sign the petition, calling it inconsistent with his anarchistic principles. Dr. Abraham Myerson, Boston psychiatrist, said that Mr. Sacco's seven years of confinement had "brought about an abnormal state in which his [radical] fanaticism has been intensified into an obsession." In spite of Mr. Sacco's refusal to sign, the petition was presented as a joint plea from both the condemned...
...member of the University Club where Judge Thayer stayed during the trial. His statement said: "At this time I did not know that I had ever met Judge Thayer. He approached me one evening, however, called me by name and began to talk to me about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and I soon was able to gather that he was the Presiding Judge, but even then I did not know his name. . . . One morning at breakfast I particularly remember because it seemed to me that Judge Thayer at that time exhibited his prejudice and bias in the most notable manner...
Last week many Sacco-Vanzetti pleas were pouring in from highly reputable sources. Among the voices added to the Sacco-Vanzetti cause were those...