Labour Defence Council. Letter to Jay R. Benton, 21 October 1925. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927

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Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrant anarchists who were controversially accused of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were electrocuted in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison. After a few hours' deliberation on July 14, 1921, the jury convicted S...

Lansbury, George, 1859-1940

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Rt Hon George Lansbury, 1859-1940, left school at the age of fourteen and worked as a clerk, a wholesale grocer and in a coffee bar before starting his own business as a contractor for the Great Eastern Railway. In 1884 he emigrated to Australia with his wife and children, but did not find the experience satisfactory, returning home in 1885 to enter his father-in-law's timber merchant business. Lansbury was involved in politics from an early age, first as an active Radical and then as a Socialis...

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Benton attended Harvard Law School and was Attorney General of Massachusetts, 1923-1927. From the description of Letter to Jay R. Benton, 21 October 1925. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 237395074 ...