Word: vanzettis
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...developed a phobia for the theatre), sports writer, columnist. His whims had upset the World routine; but his stuff had a following. Last August, he came to a stalemate with Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of the World because he insisted on writing very, very pinkish words on the Sacco-Vanzetti case (TIME, Aug. 22). It was not until late in December that Mr. Broun's column again appeared in the World. Meanwhile, he took to writing-and still does-a page in The Nation (small but earnestly liberal weekly...
...graduate (1911) of Union Theological School, Mr. Thomas used to assist at the Brick Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, Manhattan. Few strikes of any size in or near Manhattan, few free speech fights or Sacco-Vanzetti trials, are conducted without his assistance. In 1924 he was a candidate for Governor of New York...
...extractions. A great deal of this is undoubtedly justified so far as the selection of students is concerned, but in it also lies the evil which earlier forced Munsterberg and Santayana to resign and which more recently caused the withdrawal of Baker and MacDougall. And now, since the Sacco-Vanzetti case, there is an antagonism in the Law School against Frank-furter. Why should not a professor bring his knowledge to bear upon matters of public and human interest? The result has been, (as most obviously seen in the English and Philosophy Departments) that the qualifications for advancement...
...generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among the enemies of Massachusetts...
Thus Il Duce weaseled in a reminder that Italians Sacco & Vanzetti were executed despite protests from almost every European nation. That Italy would follow in the independent lead of the U. S. in administering her internal affairs was his clear & clever implication...