Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excuse me for writing with a pencil. We are forbidden to write and this letter is to be smuggled out. That's Haiti under American rule...
...Warm Letters. In that hour and a half, Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti each found time to write a letter to friends. Mr. Vanzetti's: "Governor Alvan T. Fuller is a murderer. . . . He shakes hands with me like a brother, makes me believe he was honest-intentioned.... Now, ignoring and denying all proofs of our innocence, he insults us and murders us. ... We die for anarchy. Long life to anarchy." Mr. Sacco's: ". . . . We are not surprised by this news, because we know the capitalist class is hard, without any mercy to the good soldiers of the revolution. . . . We have always known...
...choice" of not running for re-election is respected by the country. And a habit-ridden correspondent of the New York Times wrote the following, which promptly appeared on the front page of that authoritative daily: "Many offers have come to him [Mr. Coolidge] to write, and it is understood that some of the trustees of Amherst College, of which Frank W. Stearns [Mr. Coolidge's close friend] is one, may offer him the presidency of that institution...
...spring day in 1888 a conservative-looking youth marched into the office of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, got a job as a reporter. Eight years later he started to write editorials. In 1911 he was chief editorial writer. In 1922 he became editor...
Lately this "greatest golfer the world ever saw," assisted by a news scribe who long ago made the Jones career his own, has found time to write an autobiography.* The book reads as though Rob Jones had dropped in after Sunday supper on his good neighbors, the U. S. public, and fallen to swapping reminiscences, informally, naturally, letting himself be drawn out but not without deprecations such as, "Oh, I don't know about that, now," and confessions like, "I was cocky, all right...