Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leonidas C. Dyer, Representative from Missouri, whose AntiLynching bill was talked to death in the last session of Congress, is to make a tour of the West speaking in behalf of his bill. He hopes to talk it to passage in the next Congress. His speaking itinerary includes 17 cities, and his expenses will be paid by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Meanwhile an equivalent of his bill was passed with only one dissenting vote by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
...Dyer Anti-Lynch bill provides that culpable state officers and mobbists shall be tried in Federal Courts on failure of State courts to act, and that a county in which lynching occurs shall be fined $10,000, recoverable in a Federal Court...
...Dyer anti-Lynch law, it is better to maintain a semblance of punishment than to allow a man to be pardoned to be tried for murder and then receive an eight months' sentance; or to permit an attorney to outrage the decency of the state. J. R. SCHIMDT March...
...there is irony in this magnanimity of the Senate. The Dyer Bill, for the punishment of lynching, has been defeated; other legislation to improve the conditions of the Negro is not much in evidence. While their own children are being neglected, one may wonder if the spirits of the mammies will fully appreciate the Senate's generosity...
Goals, Milliken, Wells, Wiley, Wallace. Referee, Whollywood. Linesman, H. Bloxum. Time of halves, 45 minutes. HARVARD 1926 YALE 1926 Wendt, g. g., Douglas (capt.) Tarnowsky, r.f.b. l.f.b., Zantringer Phaneuf, l.f.b. r.f.b., Avery Brooks, r.h.b. l.h.b., Wiley Stahl, Dyer, c.h.b. c.h.b., Milliken Cook, l.h.b. r.h.b., Hobson, Brown Hord, o.r.f. o.l.f., Lambette Small, Boston, Welton, i.r.f. i.l.f., Wallace Gray (capt.), c.f. c.f., Le Messurier Wright, i.l.f. i.r.f., Nettleton, Bresseau Norton, o.l.f. o.r.f., Terry