Word: tomasello
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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During a protest at Arlington (Mass.) High School last spring, Martha A. Meyers, 17, burned an American flag. Last week she appealed her six-month jail sentence before Superior Court Judge Frank W. Tomasello, who lectured her on patriotism and suggested an odd alternative. He proposed that Martha immediately carry a big (5-ft. by 8-ft.) American flag on a three-mile march through the city of Cambridge. That chilly morning she dutifully carried her 15-lb. burden through the streets, head high, her face expressionless. The judge then continued the case for a year...
When Meyers appeared before Judge Frank W. Tomasello to appeal an earlier sentence of six months in jail and a $50 fine, he asked her if she was ashamed of her act. She replied that she was and Tomasello asked her if she would have courage enough to carry the court flag to Harvard Square and back, on the condition that he would dispose of her case when she returned...
Court officers relieved Meyers of the flag when she reached the Abraham Lincoln statue on Cambridge Common and escorted her back to court. There Tomasello remarked that "you conducted yourself with dignity and propriety" during the march...