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Last week Luther C. Steward, national President of the Federation of Federal Employes, announced that at the coming annual convention (beginning Sept. 7 at Faneuil Hall, Boston) he will lay before his fellows a resolution urging Congress to fix $1,500 as the minimum salary for all Federal employees, which would make their salaries almost comparable to those paid by private industries. Said...
...South Church of historical associations, built in 1730, meeting place of Boston patriots during Revolutionary times, is in the old market district, near Faneuil Hall. New Old South, built in 1877, at a cost of $800,000, is in Copley Square...
...wool business, Father Lyons was ordained in 1904. His administration of Boston College during the War days "won him the admiration of all New England." He served on the Massachusetts State Military Commission (1915), was last year chosen to deliver the historic Fourth of July address in Faneuil Hall, "Cradle of American Liberty...
Last Sunday afternoon Dr. Eliot said, among o'er things, "I remember that in speaking at a meeting under the auspices of the Central Labor Union in Faneuil Hall, when I used this expression 'joy in work' from all over the hall came a derisive guffaw. That was the state of mind of the labor union man 20 years ago, and he hasn't changed that mind since." He cannot change his mind without becoming a hypocrite...
Meanwhile, visitors may continue to see the old hall as it has been since 1805. "Is there a good citizen," the critic asks, "who has not stood upon its sawdusted floor in the old town-meeting style and heard the issues of the day discussed?" Unfortunately, there is. Faneuil Hall is not as popular a place as this writer supposes, or as the guidebook would wish to make it. Cantabrigians, who find Tremont and Boylston Streets, or Copley Square, or Coolidge Corner, conveniently near to Harvard Square, rarely penetrate a lesser distance on the other side of Park Street...