Word: vanzettis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high place in future academic circles. His mistakes were many, but his contributtions to education more than offset these mistakes. Where the University was concerned President Lowell exercised a wise discretion, but he was not always careful in expressing personal feelings. President Lowell's handling of the Sacco-Vanzetti case is critized, as well as his attitude toward racial differences. Angoff gives President Lowell praise for his defense of academic freedom of thought especially in wartime, and for the incalcation of his own intellectual standards...
...derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every...
...know what he said and I don't want to know." Because of the judge's reputation as a liberal, one of the first lawyers to rush to his defense was Boston's William G. Thompson who once served as chief counsel in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Likewise members of the Boston Bar whose fathers and grandfathers were Abolitionists gave him warm support. But not so Governor Ely who declared: "Any fugitive will be deluding himself to think that Massachusetts will prove a refuge for all those who might be able to fight extradition along the lines...
...giving $2,000,000. Dr. Lowell accomplished a dream of 20 years-the "House Plan," adopted also by Yale, that is supposed to revolutionize the college's social life. With Judge Robert Grant and the late Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton. Dr. Lowell reviewed the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case for Governor Fuller, was firmly indifferent to the blackguarding which resulted. No follower of mob-minds, no doctrinaire, he once grew
...plus the editor's note, started a rumor through Manhattan newsrooms that Walter Lippmann had been censored by Publisher & Mrs. Ogden Reid. Newsmen recalled the case of Colyumist Heywood Broun who was fired from the late World, when Lippmann was editor, for writing too bitterly about the Sacco-Vanzetti case...