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Commission Seeking Remedy For Eradicating The Causes Which Make Social Outcasts, May 31, 1927 [fragment]

Article discusses the creation of an American Crime Study Commission to investigate the causes and prevention of crime.

Addams asks Hoover for clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as a means of foreign-born Americans

Addams tells Kelley that she refused to sign a petition because she does not trust the Justice Department's files on the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Addams tells Lovett why she will not join the Citizen's Committee's petition to the Department of Justice.

Addams sends Borah a clipping to explains her support of clemency in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Addams asks Fuller to give Sacco and Vanzetti a reprieve from the death sentence.

Borah tells Addams that he disagrees with her views on the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Addams sends Schwimmer an offer of legal help from Ethelwyn Mills.

Addams signs a petition to Coolidge asking for a pardon for those convicted by the Espionage Act for speaking out against World War I.

Addams discusses crime, juvenile delinquency and efforts to humanize justice.