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...Mencken was unable to speak at the Liberal Club last night, but his attorney, Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, appeared in his stead. Mr. Mencken has agreed to be present at luncheon at the Union today...
Yesterday morning Mencken arrived in Boston with his attorney Arthur Garfield Hays, who is counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, determined, to force the issue on the suppression. He immediately got in touch with Chase and warned him that at 2 o'clock he would sell a copy of the American Mercury to any purchaser who would meet him in front of the Park Street Church...
...which F. V. Field '27 is Harvard's representative on the executive committee, shares the auspices for the project with the American Advisory Committee which numbers among its members, Stephen P. Duggan, President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe, President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin University, President Hibben of Princeton, President Garfield of Williams, President MacCracken of Vassar, President Neilson of Smith, Norman Hapgood '90, John F. Moors '83, Fellow of Harvard College, Frank A. Vanderlip and various other educators and public leaders...
...Clifton all attempts at mass picketing have met with police opposition. Clubs are wielded, tear bombs are thrown, and fire hoses are trained on the strikers. As a result the slightest spark may ignite the magazine and precipitate serious riots. On the other hand the police of Lodi and Garfield do not oppose the strikers. On the contrary, they march alongside the parades and clear the traffic for them. There has been no violence or ill feeling in these latter towns. What a contrast to the stupid methods of Passaic and Clifton where reporters are assaulted, where strikers are sent...
...years later he was admitted to the Illinois bar, returning to Washington in 1881 at the request of President Garfield who asked him to be Secretary of War. Waiting one day at a railway station, he witnessed a second presidential assassination as Garfield left the train. President Arthur retained him alone of Garfield's secretaries...