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Colonel Huger of South Carolina tells the story of his attempt at rescuing Lafayette from prison in Austria. Daniel Webster orates, in public and at home. Andrew Jackson bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...
...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...
Last week, Judge Webster Thayer in the Superior Court at Dedham, Mass., handed down a decision denying a new trial on the basis of new evidence which he had heard last month (TIME, Sept. 27). He concluded that one Celestino Madeiros, who confessed to the murder charged against Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, was "a crook, a thief, a robber, a liar, a rumrunner, a 'bouncer' in a house of ill-fame, a smuggler and a man who was being convicted and sentenced to death for murder." Other evidence did not warrant the belief of his story. Also Judge Thayer...
...Webster's New International defines both Urning and Lesbian...
...home of President Ernest Martin Hopkins is located on Webster Avenue and is now being occupied by the President. The building was the gift of Edward Tuck '62, and is of red brick Colonial style and overlooks Tuck Drive to the rear...