Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror for nine hours, culminating in the felling of one citizen, the serious injury of at least two others, an unsuccessful attempt to lynch the Mayor of the City, and the successful lynching of a prisoner charged with a heinous crime,--are but the eruptive symptoms of a disease which has eaten into the fabric of American life...
Lynching, like Slavery, has never recognized racial or geographic limits; as the fate of the Mayor of Omaha forcibly reminds us. Hundreds of white men in this country have been victims of lawlessness and mob violence; it was the lynching of a Montana labor leader that called forth President Wilson's utterance of July 26th. It cannot be confined to the South: excluding New England there is not a single section of the Union which has not been the scene of at least one lynching in the past 22 years. The evil is national in range and scope; the nation...
...refusing to hold its second annual meeting in Chicago, the Legion made it plain what its action toward pro-Germans and former pro-Germans would be. Mayor Thompson of Chicago had refused to invite the French mission to his city, had publicly proclaimed Chicago as the 'sixth German city of the world,' and had shown his pro-German tendencies by many other actions. It seemed entirely fitting to refuse to hold a convention of American war veterans in a city which had re-elected him mayor...
...representing the three universities will meet in the 11th triangular debate, on the question: "Resolved, that the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution should be abolished." In the contest with Yale, which will take place in Sanders Theatre, the University will uphold the negative side of the subject. Mayor Andrew J. Peters '95 of Boston will preside and the judges will be H. C. Attwill, Attorney General of Massachusetts; Justice J. D. McLoughlin, of the Superior Court, Boston; and C. W. Parmenter, Head Master of the Mechanics Arts High School, Boston...
...University negative at Cambridge consists of W. D. Whitney, W. Millis, and L. S. Hitchcock. Princeton will be represented by L. M. Steven, W. H. Hendrickson Jr., and R. C. Sailer. Each speaker will talk for twelve minutes in constructive argument and five in rebuttal. The chairman will be Mayor Andrew J. Peters '95, of Boston. The Judges have not yet been announced...