Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lynching which occurred here during the early hours of Oct. 8 has given this community quite as much unfavorable and unsought publicity as necessary. Why not review some past racial affair in East St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and an Ohio city? They are all closer to your office than Aiken. That we are civilized is best attested by the considerable number of America's best families who for more than 50 years have been spending their winter vacation in Aiken, stepping from the train and realizing how far removed from gunmen and gangsters, machine and sawed-off shotguns they...
...Aiken Praised...
Engaged. Rosamond Reed, daughter of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed (Pennsylvania); to Charles Denby Jr., son of Charles Denby, onetime (1918, 1922-23) U. S. special representative to China; also nephew of onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby...
...Mills mess only to provide four page accounts for the much more aristocratic Times. And now the New York World has started a national protest against lynching. The World's action is extremely notable, and one which is winning for the journal the recognition it deserves. The affair at Aiken, South Carolina, was a blot on the name of justice and the World is to be praised for having sent its personal representative down to get the facts...
...precedent by also pleading guilty. Thereupon, Judge Harry Reed of Douglas, Ga., sentenced Major Brown to life imprisonment and his companions to terms of from four to twenty years. Thus, Georgia had punished lynchers within 90 days of the lynching. Georgians were justly proud of Georgia justice. Meanwhile, in Aiken, S. C., there was little progress in the investigation of those responsible for the lynching of the three Lowmans, Negroes, one of whom was a woman-an unusually nauseating incident (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 22). The Ku Klux Klan demanded that the New York World, which has led in forcing...