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Governor Bradford recently refused to support the plaque in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti on the grounds that there was no point in "stirring up the bitter passions and prejudices of twenty years ago." Unfortunately the old passions and prejudices need no stirring up. They sit in on sessions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and are the driving force behind the present campaign of loyalty checks; it is passion arising from prejudice that has purged individuals from private jobs and caused colleges to ban student leftist organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plaque and Prejudice | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

...State of Massachusetts executed Sacco and Vanzetti for murder, but only two years later the Encyclopedia Britannica recorded that ". . . public opinion of the world felt the execution had taken place less upon the evidence than for the crime of holding extreme opinions." Today there is a more insidious movement spreading over the nation than the red hysteria that engulfed the early twenties. "The crime of holding extreme opinions" becomes a graver offense each day as more and more individuals do not express their true political beliefs for fear of economic and social organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plaque and Prejudice | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

...thing that neither time nor politics has changed is Massachusetts' official stand on the 1927 execution of famed Radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Ten years ago Democratic Governor Charles F. Hurley curtly rejected the offer of a bronze bas-relief, designed by the late mountain-sculpturing Gutzon Borglum, as a memorial to "the good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler." Last week Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford just as firmly turned it down again. This time the committee that offered it to the state was headed by Harvard Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: No Useful Purpose | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...awkward, muscle-bound but often effective pictures were honored last week with a retrospective show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The 55 temperas and gouaches on exhibition were sharply drawn, flatly painted reminders of the Sacco-Vanzetti and Tom Mooney cases, the slum children who scrabble for happiness in high-walled playgrounds, the gnarled and stunted poor, the dead on the Pacific beaches, the ruins of Europe, the faces of the starved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Eye | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...whether Sacco and Vanzetti had received a fair trial or were indeed guilty the governor said nothing, Professor Schlesinger commented. The governor, who has the power to recommend action to the legislature, decided the issue on political grounds, he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger May Carry Sacco Plea To Capitol Unless Governor Yields | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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