Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicola Sacco, a shoe-worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish-peddler, were arrested on Brockton street car. They were both Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists. They were soon charged with a double murder and payroll robbery committed three weeks earlier in South Braintree, Mass...
...none of these events occurred, and the result may have been unsought and undeserved martyrdom for a shoe-worker and a fish-peddler who happened to be Italian immigrants with radical sympathies. The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was undoubtedly the most significant of this century. Its world-wide repercussions rivaled those of the Dreyfus case in France. for the larger part of a decade it commanded the interest and emotion of millions of people both here in America and throughout Europe...
...establish a reputation. A former member of the board of governors of the Florida Bar Association, he had no prior judicial experience. Still, he does not seem to have Carswell-style racist skeletons in his closet. At the time of his appointment, according to a Florida civil rights worker, "we did everything we could to find something on the man, and we couldn't come up with a damn thing...
...Slow Worker. Little known in lay circles, Sutherland has for years been a recognized leader among his colleagues. They believe that his findings are basic to any understanding of body chemistry. Last year his experiments brought him the Lasker Award, the 22nd time since 1946 that this distinction has presaged a Nobel. Though he became interested in hormone studies 25 years ago, Sutherland considers almost everything he did before 1960 merely preparation for his recent research, which established the importance of his earlier findings. "I guess I'm just a slow worker," he says...
Leaving his station, the distraught worker approaches two life-sized padded dummies seated on a platform. Picking up a bamboo stave placed conveniently near by, he ferociously attacks the dummies, slashing and swatting them until his fury is spent...