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...unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder one fights for a position in the marketplace, the poorer the product becomes-all in the name of 'satisfying the mass audience...
From Broun's first article on the case: To me, the tragedy of the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti lies in the fact that this was not done by crooks and knaves. In that case, we could have a campaign with a slogan "throw the rascals out" and set up for a year or two a reform Administration. Nor have I had much patience with those who would like to punish [Judge] Thayer by impeachment or any other process. Unfrock him and his judicial robes would fall upon a pair of shoulders not different by the thickness of a fingernail...
...there has been a long and careful sifting of the evidence in the case. It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice. Even if every venerable college president in the country trotted forward to say "guilty" it would not alter the facts. The tragedy of it all lies in the fact that though a Southern mountain man may move more quickly to a dirty deed of violence...
From Broun's article after The World fired him: There is no use in my pretending that I do not believe myself right and the World wrong in the present controversy. As far as Sacco and Vanzetti went, both the paper and the individual wanted an amelioration of the sentence. Nothing less than a pardon or a new trial was satisfactory to me. Apparently The World believed that if life imprisonment was all that could be won from Gov. Fuller, that would be bettter than nothing. Here an interesting point of tactics arises. The editorial strategy of the World...
Closed Case. To the Katangese, that closed the case. "I forbid the United Nations to take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...