Word: vanzetti
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nicola Sacco, convicted over a year ago with Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the murder of a paymaster and his guard in Boston, has been on hunger strike for sixteen days and is said to be showing signs of weakness. The Sacco-Vanzetti case attracted international attention because the two Italian defendants are well-known radicals and received aid, comfort, and propaganda support from all over the world. The Labor Defense Committee, which is the chief agency fighting for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, charges that they were " framed " by the police because they were radicals and that they were convicted...
Sacco is on hunger strike now as a protest against being kept in jail so long without sentence after his conviction of a crime of which he con- tends he is innocent. Counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti have made five motions for new trials, based on new evidence, discrediting of former testimony, and exceptions taken during the first trial. All of these motions are scheduled to be heard within a week...
...mass meeting to be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock on the Sacco-Vanzetti case at the club house of the Student Liberal Club, 66 Winthrop Street, will be addressed by Mrs. Lois Rantoul and Mrs. Glendower Evans, who will present the evidence of the trial...
...evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case will be discussed by Mrs. Lois Rantoul, representing the Womans Trade Union League, and Mrs. Glendower Evans, secretary of the League for Democratic Control, at a mass meeting open to members of the University to be held at the club house of the Student Liberal Club, 66 Winthrop Street, Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock...
...recent exposures concerning the alleged questionable proceedings of the Department of Justice are sufficiently grave to demand the immediate attention of every exponent of civil liberty. The Sacco-Vanzetti case, the fall of the Italian, Salsedo, from the fourteenth story of the offices of the Department, the extended list of its illegal practices compiled by such lawyers as Zachariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, and Dean Pound of the Law School, cannot fail to arouse the suspicion that "where there is smoke there is fire". Specifically, the Department is charged with wanton destruction of property; arrest without warrant; illegal imprisonment without trial...