Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Execution. Guilty or not, justly or not, Nicola Sacco, clean-shaven factory worker and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, mustachioed fish-peddler, were informed last Monday evening that they must die that midnight for the murders- which to the end they denied committing-of a paymaster and guard at South Braintree, Mass., in 1920. Celestino Madeiros, confessed murderer of a bank cashier in Wrentham, Mass., was notified to the same effect. Prisoner Madeiros, in a stupor from overeating at his last meal, preceded his world-famed neighbors to the electric chair...
Union Square. In a typical U. S. square (Union Square, Manhattan), 10,000 people stood shoulder to shoulder before a bulletin of the Daily Worker. Toward midnight they read...
Died. Nicola Sacco, 33, factory worker, convicted of murder; by electrocution in Charlestown, Mass...
Chairman Brent. This man was Bishop Charles Henry Brent of the Episcopal diocese of Western New York. Canadian-born and educated, naturalized in the U. S., an obscure worker in the awkward robes of the Cowley Fathers among the poor of Boston, later (under Bishop Phillips Brooks) an Episcopal rector who was made a missionary bishop and sent to the Philippines because of his earnest simplicity, rugged strength and adaptability among people of other races, it was Bishop Brent who confirmed General Pershing in the Philippines and subsequently became Chaplain-in-Chief...
Those orthodox Christian Scientists who read the New York World were vexed to discover great spaces in one of that newspaper's last week's editions given over to Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson. To orthodox Christian Scientists Mrs. Stetson, for 35 years the close friend and co-worker of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, has been a renegade, a pariah. In 1909 they expelled her from their church, because they, considered her extensions of their Leader's teachings subversive to those theories. Since then she has been a many-barbed thorn in their flesh, and lately, since...