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...snappier, more powerful model A in time to avert disaster. But he could still find time to interest himself in others' troubles. Ford, who had been called an anarchist by the Chicago Tribune in 1916, spoke out against a death sentence for the Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Two days before the execution in Boston, Vanzetti wrote Ford: "I have always claimed my intire innocence and I will die affirming it. We have an extraordinary mass of newly discovered evidence of such weight and nature to impose our release ... I beg your pardon for my so many words...
...School. . . retain the position it has established over the year.' We sincerely hope that the Law School will be true to its traditions which found its finest expressions in Dean Roscoe Pound's criticism of the Palmer Raids of the 1920's, Justice Frankfurter's dissent of Sacco and Vanzetti, and Professor Chafee's participation in the great free speech controversies...
...portrayed as "peace partisans," condemned because they opposed Washington plans to war on Russia. In Italy they were "Gli Innocenti" (The Innocents), whose two young children (5 and 9) would be made orphans, and Rome's Communist L'Unitá compared them to Dreyfus, Zola, Sacco and Vanzetti, and John Brown...
...close examination. She's Working Her Way Through College is seen to be a tuned-up, toned-down version of the 1940 James Thurber-Elliott Nugent stage comedy, The Male Animal.* In the play, the professor fought for the right to read a letter by Bartolomeo Vanzetti to his English class. In substituting a stripteaser for Vanzetti, the picture has been divested not only of the play's significance, but also of most of its rich humor. At one point in The Male Animal, the professor said: "A college should be concerned with ideas." Midwest State, as represented...
...year for controversies and fights for principles. The final Sacco and Vanzetti appeal had been denied, and the CRIMSON joined the nation's liberals in attacking the judges who had convicted the pair on so little evidence. Alexander Kerensky spoke to the College, and Seniors heard him say that the Russian government would surely fall within a short time. It was a gubernatorial year in Massachusetts, and the Young Republicans, led by H. L. Kobol and Henry Cabot Lodge '23 marched in a torchlight parade...