Word: faneuil
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...Boston, the bell atop Faneuil Hall tolled mournfully. Beneath it men wearing black neckties, women wearing black rosettes packed into the historic old building. On the platform sat solemn elders in deep mourning. The Liberal Civic League had called the meeting "In memoriam of the death of Liberty and the 1,363 who have been killed in the war of Prohibition." Muffled drums rolled. A bugler blew taps. Chief speaker: Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards, retired, wartime commander of the 26th ("Yankee") Division, who asked for "laws promulgated by the ballot and not enforced by the bullets." When the band...
Boston. Into Faneuil Hall, famed Revolutionary "Cradle of Liberty," shoved and pushed a great crowd to mass their protests against the Black Duck killings, to hear speakers compare the "Newport Massacre" with the slaying of Crispus Attucks on March 5, 1770, by British redcoats. Market-men in white aprons and straw hats heard William H. Mitchell, chairman, exclaim: "When stark wholesale murder stalks abroad under the guise of any law, in God's name repeal that...
...rich and elegant standards will be presented to the Corps of Cadets on Saturday, next, by the selectmen, at the State House, in presence of the Governor, and other State and municipal officers; after which a collation will be given at Faneuil Hall...
...first time since the Cradle of Liberty first rocked, a woman spoke in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on Independence Day. She was U. S. Representative (Mrs.) Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, and during her address the cradle rocked again. As became a good Republican, she praised Herbert Clark Hoover. Then, to the surprise of some Bostonians and the delight of others, she said: "I am going to speak of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. He, too, came of the people. . . . America gave him his chance and he grasped it. He has made good use of that chance...
...hoped that Faneuil Adams '20, son of the late librarian, Edward B. Adams '92, will act as clerk of the court. The trial will be open to all Law School men and those Juniors and Seniors who intend to study...