Word: vanzettis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must know, that the paper which had set the pace on the Mooney-Billings case was the San Francisco News. The News is a Scripps-Howard paper and Publisher Roy Howard went to San Francisco personally to supervise the building up of the Mooney-Billings story into a Sacco-Vanzetti Case of the West?a feature for the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain. Observers outside of California also knew that leading papers not in the Scripps-Howard chain had been playing up California's "holy show" all over the land and would doubtless have done so regardless...
...Tercentenary Commis- sioner Herbert Parker made speeches on Boston's history, praised the Puritan fathers. Aged Robert Grant, Boston's famed author-judge (The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl, Yankee Doodle, The Knave of Hearts, The Bishop's Granddaughter; member of Governor Fuller's advisory committee on the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927) read a poem. Herewith the last stanza...
...York City Socialist, was a newsman for four years on the New York Sun. Pub licity work for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. made him a radical. He now publicizes for the United Mine Workers (Springfield faction [TiME. March 24]). He reported the Scopes trial, the Herron trial, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial for labor papers. Politically minded, he ran for Alderman fn 1927, for U. S. Senator...
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...