Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senatorial courtesy," which prevented the confirmation of Negro appointees to office, the failure of the Liberian Loan, the failure of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, were condemned. Final resolutions called for the enforcement of the 14th (Negro citizenship) and 15th (Negro suffrage) Amendments to the Constitution, passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, more Negro officeholders in the South, Negro management of Tuskegee National Hospital...
...Atkinson, C. E. Baldwin, Howes Burton, D. G. Caste. M. A. Cheek Jr., R. H. Field, J. E. Knowlton, J. J. Maher, J. C. McGlone, F. S. Moseley, H. I. Pratt, R. W. Puffer Jr., Pedro Sanchez Jr., H. E. Slayton, C. L. Todd, Thayer Cummings, manager, R. H. Dyer, assistant manager...
...Pennsylvania, an anti-lynching bill (much resembling the federal Dyer bill, which was talked to death in the last Congress) was passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Pinchot. It makes lynching and kidnapping which results in death, murder; a person who tries to take a prisoner from an officer shall be fined not less than $10,000 and imprisoned not more than ten years; a county in which a lynching occurs shall be fined $10,000; and other drastic provisions design to allow no loophole of escape to participants in a lynching...
...helped write the Republican tariff plank and yet attacked the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for its wool duties. An enemy of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwest, an opponent of the soldier bonus (although one of the two civil war veterans in the Senate), a supporter of the Dyer anti-lynching bill and an advocate of a child labor amendment?he leaves behind him the memory of a fearless, independent and forceful...
Leonidas C. Dyer. His antilynching bill was talked to death by the Democrats. He will talk it back to life...