Word: vanzettis
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...expose entitled "The Portentious Case of Sacco and Vanzetti", Professor Frankfurter endeavors to explain and clarify what has become one of the most celebrated cases in the history of criminal procedure in the United States...
...night before in Paris there had been a Communist mass-meeting, and a deputation of Communists had just called, in a high state of excitement, to present resolutions demanding that Ambassador Herrick intercede to prevent the "assassination" of Comrades Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti of Massachusetts. Mr. Waterhouse had engaged the leaders of the deputation in thoughtful conversation and pointed...
...That Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti were convicted of murdering two men in South Braintree, Mass., six years ago, at a trial prosecuted not by the U. S. Government but by Massachusetts Commonwealth...
...Rome, Madrid and other capitals, other U. S. diplomats prepared similar explanations for irate Red Callers. Everywhere police protection was strengthened about U. S. envoys. With only a bill of exceptions and the Massachusetts Supreme Court, or the Governor's pardon, between them and death, Comrades Sacco and Vanzetti were more than ever the potential fuses for bombs* under the chairs of unwary U.S. dignitaries, whose safety was not increased by comment such as the opening editorial sentence of last week's Nation: "Judge Webster Thayer is a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...Ambassador Herrick's valet was hurt opening an infernal package sent by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers...