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...current, New Republic invests Boston with a purpose, namely, the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. It attributes this purpose to what it, editorially, takes to be the real Boston, an "ethnic minority" conscious that the prisoners are communists and foreigners. It contrasts this state of things with the political temper of Chicago where it finds, an agglomerate ethnic majority, conscious that another and more aristocratic portion of the city is Anglo-Saxon and descend from grandparents native born, has just elected as mayor, one who jollied and humored them...
...specifications, with regard to both Chicago and Boston situations are far from proved by assertion. And it is, moreover, under this sort of treatment that the Sacco-Vanzetti case is becoming obscured while winning notoriety. The case has already established public relations with the defects of the Massachusetts judicial system, the standard of integrity maintained in the district attorney's office, theories of evidence, and labor agitation. It remained for the New Republic to allege that there is also a racial question at stake...
...have succeeded in getting a quarter of a ton of this. If Sacco and Vanzetti are going to be murder, I am going to get more...
Trial Judge Webster Thayer, cast by Sacco-Vanzetti adherents as the villain of the plot, said last week: "I have made my position clear enough. I did what I had to do. What more can I say? I can only maintain a judicial silence...
...right to free speech because freedom of speech does not "constitute unbridled license for every possible use of language." Thus Miss Whitney, reputedly a Mayflower-descendant, must serve 1 to 14 years at San Quentin prison. Said she: "I have nothing to complain of in comparison to Sacco and Vanzetti...