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...Webster Thayer, trial judge in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, held under death sentence (TIME, Sept. 27, Nov. 1, April 18, April 25) in the Dedham (Mass.) jail, refer during the trial to Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti as "those bastards"'? Did he say "a bunch of parlor radicals are trying to get those guys off," but that he "would show them and would get those guys hanged"? Did he add that "no Bolsheviki could intimidate Web Thayer," that he "would also like to hang a few dozen radicals...
...interests of a larger and finer whole. One may say without any spirit of pomp or pride that membership in Harvard University is an end in itself and all the component parts of the community yield to its superiority. It has become almost a can't phrase to refer to Harvard as the exception which proves the rule: the rule being that fraternal organizations are essential to the success of any modern college or university...
...waste eight and one-half square inches of space in your valuable magazine every week on a coupon which only your newsstand buyers can use ? I refer to the Circulation Manager's subscription order coupon...
Long and prodding, the letter went on to discuss statutes and customs; to mention the failure of two Republicans (Grant and Roosevelt) who tried to alter custom; to refer to "your recent public rebuff to Herbert Hoover"* and the alleged embarrassment felt by other Republican presidential aspirants due to their chief's silence...
...Back to Anarchy" seemed a glib phrase to describe last week the splitting of Chinese factions into unstable fractions of themselves. A month ago one could refer in general terms to a Northern and a rival Southern Chinese government. But last week these large groupings of power had decentralized into the hands of a few generals, politicians and adventurers precariously maintaining themselves in China's chief cities...