Word: lowmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks still pended before Seymour W. Lowman, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, was to replace Brigadier General Lincoln C. Andrews, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Prohibition Enforcement. But Assistant Secretary Andrews was away from his office on a vacation and would not be back before Aug. 1, the transition date, except "to clean up his affairs." Assistant Secretary Lowman was already and practically in charge. The new Commissioner of Prohibition, Dr. James M. Doran, was also ready to function. So last week seemed propitious for calling the district prohibition administrators to Washington for conference...
Meanwhile the new Governor of South Carolina* has done nothing more than his predecessor to punish the lynchers of the Lowman Negroes and Negress (TIME...
...companions to terms of from four to twenty years. Thus, Georgia had punished lynchers within 90 days of the lynching. Georgians were justly proud of Georgia justice. Meanwhile, in Aiken, S. C., there was little progress in the investigation of those responsible for the lynching of the three Lowmans, Negroes, one of whom was a woman-an unusually nauseating incident (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 22). The Ku Klux Klan demanded that the New York World, which has led in forcing the investigation, cease its series of lynching articles and recall its reporter from Aiken. Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South...
Last month in Aiken, S. C., a band of the new gentry lynched three Negroes, Demon and Clarence Lowman and their sister Bertha, with a refinement of tactics (TIME, Oct. 18). They hauled their prey out of jail one night, took them out of town, told them to run, shot them in the face and chest as they turned to look. In 200 parked cars the gentry stepped on their starters, satisfied...
...York World has a number of Negro newspaper reporters on its staff; 'but. the managing editor of the World evidently decided he had best not send any of these to South Carolina to look into the Lowman mess. The presumption is that the reporter Oliver H. P. Garrett at least has a white skin...