Word: faneuil
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...Peter Faneuil, warming his toes on the hearth one evening in 1740, decided things in Boston had gone far enough. Not the British, you understand, or the weather, but the markets. Peter, a wealthy merchant, was tired of traipsing all over town doing the family shopping; he wanted a public exchange center, an open market where he could get in out of the rain and cross off his whole list, from snuff to hops, at one time...
Boston's own Faneuil Hall, where last spring a mob of 500 raging, stomping veterans asserted their claim to an extra $900 windfall, was the scene of one of the earliest and most vociferous bonus rallies. Since then the question of bonuses has been an issue in almost every state or national veterans' organization. Happily, there has been no indication that a majority of veterans feel a bonus is desirable. While the VFW has announced itself as favoring the bonus, the new but active AVC is definitely in the opposition, and the American Legion, so far non-committal nationally...
...Boston, veterans flocked to Faneuil Hall to howl and hoot at speakers who opposed a proposed increase in the state bonus from...
Charles Francis Adams '88 will announce the results and award the $8000 in prizes in the contest to conceived a plan for post-war improvements in Boston. The announcement will be part of a meeting at Faneuil Hall tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, which will feature speeches by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, President of the Board of Overseers, and Mayor Maurice J. Tobin...
William A. Cahill, NROTC, was chosen as the Debating Council's representative in the oratorical contest to be held Friday afternoon at Faneuil Hall under the sponsorship of the Boston Sunday Advertiser and Record American, it was learned yesterday. The subject of the six minute speeches will be John Paul Jones, American...