Word: silva
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article was written specially for the Crimson by Professor E. M. Morgan '02, of the Harvard Law School. It is a criticism of articles in the current issue of the "Outlook" which attempt to prove that Frank Silva, not Vanzetti was guilty in the Bridgewater holdup...
...Outlook story of Frank Silva's confession will have little or no influence upon those who have already made up their minds. To those who believe Vanzetti a martyr. It will give the comfort of corroboration to those who believe him guilty. It will be brushed aside as coming from a person wholly unworthy of credence, untested by hostile cross-examination and unsupported by anything that could be properly termed independent evidence. To one who examines the Bridgewater case for the first time, it raises the regret that it was not discovered in time for use at the trial...
Died. Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, 89, first surgeon to operate successfully on cancer of the throat; at Philadelphia. He developed the science of laryngoscopy and taught most of the present specialists. When J. Ramsay MacDonald, onetime English Prime Minister, visited the U. S. last April and fell ill, Dr. Solis-Cohen attended him personally...
...engagement ring still worn by Mile. Vacarescu, now an aged spinster. The ring was given her by Ferdinand in the '80s, when he was but a prince and she was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into enforced residence in Germany. Last...
...Pedro II, reigned as Emperor from 1831 until the Republic was established (1889). Platform Promises which President Luiz must now attempt to fulfill: 1) stabilization of the milreis (worth 12.25 cents, par 32.45 cents) at a rate slightly below that favored by the retiring President, Dr. Arturo da Silva Bernardes; 2) construction of good roads throughout Brazil, an activity pioneered by President Luiz when State Governor of Sao Palo; 3) relief of the present serious coal shortage...