Word: lemuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner, except that he also administers the departments of fire, building, elevator and electrical inspection, maintenance & repairs. Most famed of Philadelphia's recent Safety Directors was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, who tried to dry up the city. In 1928 aggressive, door-smashing Lemuel B. Schofield was appointed following a grand jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped would find other things to do than "being a captain of police to lead raids or a fire chief...
Jubilant Negro dailies throughout the U. S. hailed last week the "race justice" of Soviet Russia's courts. In Moscow two white U. S. workmen, Lemuel ("Lem") Lewis of Detroit and William ("Bill") Brown of Toledo, had just been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a Negro waiter in the mess hall of a Soviet factory-this crime being known to Red jurists as "racial Chauvinism...