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...firmly believed that it was Hoppy who saw to it that they were served by a reliable bootlegger. He let no one bully his liberal professors. When an irate alumnus offered Hoppy $50,000 if he would fire a professor who had denounced the conduct of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial by Judge Webster Thayer (a Dartmouth man), Hoppy told the professor about it. The professor fumed. Said Hoppy: "Don't get excited. If you quit, I will too, and we'll split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hoppy's Generation | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...which the janitor was nearly beaten to death. As it was, he lost the sight of both eyes. Apted nearly lost his job as a result of the affair, but retained it through wholehearted student support. Another incident is the threat against President Lowell's life during the Sacco-Vanzetti trial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: General Apted Will Publish Autobiography: Robert Playfair to Edit, Organize Memoirs | 2/5/1941 | See Source »

...will be for the right to assemble freely at Miss Deborah Dillingfeather's party to sample champagne and ski talk till four in the morning; for the privilege of a jury trial (thank God there's only one Dick Whitney and as for those Reds Sacco and Vanzetti, they should have been sent back to Russia in the first place); for a democracy extolled by sophists who call themselves teachers and hypocrites who call themselves representatives of the people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

...plan whereby established publishing houses bring them out. Viking Press has published nine. Oxford University Press and Hastings House are each publishers of seven. Houghton Mifflin published the six New England Guides, soured a little when Massachusettsians raised hob about the amount of space given to Sacco and Vanzetti. Publishers have not made much money out of the Guide Books, but report a steady sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: WPAchievement | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Records of famous American and foreign trials, including the Hauptmann and the Sacco-Vanzetti trials, will be a part of the Law School display...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Will Display Treasures Next Week | 6/9/1940 | See Source »

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