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That is typical of the sneering writings of that columnist, Heywood Broun. At least, TIME, I am glad that you were gentlemanly enough not to quote that sentence from Mr. Broun in your Sacco & Vanzetti story (TIME, Aug. 15). All good Americans should know that Mr. Broun is the most blasphemous son Harvard ever had. And I hope that all good Harvard men as well as the New York World will disown...
...been oiled, adjusted, inspected by the executioner. Machine guns had been placed along the prison walls to prevent violence. Radio station WSOM in Manhattan was hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...
...Sacco was too weak and too gloomy to say anything. He continued his hunger strike which had then reached its 24th day. Mr. Vanzetti said: "Well, I'm damned glad. I'd like to see my sister before I die." (His sister sailed last week for the U. S. on the Aquitania from Cherbourg.) Soon Mr. Vanzetti began to swallow liquids and, later, salads. Mr. Madeiros who had been eating heavily sat in a stupor...
...Trial, Mercy or Death? The possibility of a new trial for Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti rested chiefly on the appeal which Arthur D. Hill, their head counsel, prepared to make before the supreme judiciary court of Massachusetts on the grounds that Judge Webster Thayer exhibited prejudice during the murder trial. But it was on the mercy of Governor Fuller that many a Sacco & Vanzetti sympathizer pinned his hopes. Leading U. S. newspapers, even the most conservative Foreign Journals, urged clemency. An example?the venerable Spectator in England said: "Certain facts make us feel that justice in the strict sense...
Boston Disturbers. Before Governor Fuller granted a respite to Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti the streets of Boston contained a number of persons who annoyed the police. Edward Holton James, nephew of the late famed Philosopher William James and Novelist Henry James, attended a Sacco & Vanzetti mass meeting on the Boston Common. Smartly dressed, neatly barbered, looking more like a distinguished professor emeritus than a boisterous radical nephew, James shouted: "Down with the police!*, assaulted a bluecoat, was promptly arrested. Refusing to plead the charges against him he told the court that he would not stand up "before murderers whether they...