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...heart ar-tery), immediately after dictating a tribute to his old friend Thomas Alva Edison (see below); in Boston. With Judge Robert Grant and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, he was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts to review the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927. Three months ago he said he hoped to live 100 years...
Thus last week did the case of eight blackamoors, condemned to death for rape, take on its first international aspect. Beginning with the same violent methods at U. S. embassies and consulates. Reds made the Sacco-Vanzetti case a world issue...
...Author- Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 37, divorced wife of one Edwin Pond Parker II, is half Jewish, half Scottish. She has worked on Vogue, Vanity Fair, is now the New Yorker's "Constant Reader." During the Sacco-Vanzetti disturbances she was arrested in Boston for "loitering and sauntering," paid a $5 fine...
Precedent, like Gods of the Lightning, the Sacco-Vanzetti protest piece, may not be a play at all, but it has the undeniable power of sincerity behind it, enough to cover any amount of dramaturgical flaws. After seeing it, you would have a hard time not taking one side or the other in the Mooney-Billings case, for a while at least...
Massachusetts has not fared well in its reputation for faithful judicial procedure. The Sacco-Vanzetti case still stands as a blot in the 'scutcheon. Now it has been demonstrated that the legal machinery of Massachusetts can and does insure a "fair and speedy trial", the constitutional right of every citizen...