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...first place, Professor Whitney will take up the "Restoration of Charles II" at 9 o'clock in Harvard 6, and then at 10 o'clock one has but to go down stairs to Harvard 1 to hear Professor Webster speak on "British Foreign Policy about...
...Thus Governor Fuller. Why, however, has his action regarding the Sacco-Vanzetti case become a matter of national, of international concern? Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti are awaiting execution for a payroll robbery, accompanied by murder, occurring in South Braintree, Mass., on April 15, 1920. A fortnight ago Judge Webster Thayer, trial judge at the time of the conviction, sentenced the two Italians to be executed sometime during the week of July 10, 1927 (TIME, April...
Complicated tortured, partly dimmed by the passage of seven years is the problem which Governor Fuller must analyze. As against the allegations discussed above, he will doubtless consider the facts that Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, tried by a jury of their peers, were found guilty; that Trial Judge Webster Thayer, before whom have come repeated petitions for a new trial has steadfastly refused to consider any of the matter contained in these petitions as important enough to justify reopening th? case. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has also refused to allow appeals taken from the verdict arrived...
...Mass.) jail. Last week in a Dedham courtroom, there was a scene, wherein seven years of emotion simmered and boiled over. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts had finally and flatly rejected evidence for a new trial on the grounds that there had not been a "failure of justice." Judge Webster Thayer, clad in black robes, with a face as still and as pallid as an ancient cameo, entered the courtroom to sentence Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. Bluecoats fingered sawed-off shotguns. Secret service agents with crimson rosettes in their lapels posed as Reds. Women sobbed...
Architecture, dismissed briefly in Webster as "the art or science of building, or construction in general," is the mother of all the arts, held by many to be the first among them all. Painting and sculpture have at many times in the history of art served in a distinctly minor capacity as the handmaidens of architecture, as enhancements of the central theme...