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...boats rocked from side to side, spectators on shore strained eyes to read the names on their prows. One was Sacco; the other Vanzetti...
...accident that when Sacco and Vanzetti were electrocuted (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927) the imposing Buenos Aires branches of the National City Bank of New York and the First National Bank of Boston were bombed...
...Vanzetti, under assumed names...
Gods of the Lightning. When Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for the murder of a paymaster, there were many people who thought they were unjustly punished. "Sacco and Vanzetti were martyrs." said these people, "and they will not be forgotten." Thereafter, little was heard concerning Sacco and Vanzetti; it appeared that one of the most exciting episodes of U. S. jurisprudence was not even to arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical...
...pardoning power vested in the governor is to enable him to extend executive clemency to innocent men and women who have been convicted after a fair trial. If the governor and his commission confined themselves to inquiring of the jurors whether they and the judge gave Sacco and Vanzetti a fair trial, it would seem that the executive power was used merely to confirm the judicial determination of the question before the court, and not exercised independently in the manner contemplated by our frame of government with its separation of powers. Sincerely yours, Edward Dumbauld...