Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Neither of his letters makes any definite statement, save that he is not surprised--an assertion with which I have no quarrel; he only implies by turns (a) that a lynching mob should not be punished by law, (b) that, apart from the question of whether they should be punished or not, they are normal citizens, acting from good motives. Both these doctrines seemed to me too mischievous to pass unchallenged; and I attacked them with arguments which he gives no sign of having read, and certainly has not answered. But when I read in his second letter...
First, the statement that within approximately six weeks there had occurred twenty-eight attacks on white women by negroes, with the resulting conviction and sentence of one negro. As I understand the write, this an was sentenced to serve only six months in jail, although it was stated that he was identified by three women, presumably victims of his attacks. There was absolutely lacking any proof of these twenty-eight alleged attacks--the facts are merely alleged, and no alleged fact without supporting evidence can or does stand before the law. If it was impossible to secure evidence or apprehend...
...accused of an attack on a white woman and confined by the military authorities. The case was printed in scare-crow headlines in all our newspaper. In a later edition of the Boston Herald, in small type, at the fag-end of a long article on the riots, the statement was made that the accused had been released-nothing else. Can any fair-minded American believe that this is honest and fair dealing? Why was the world not told in as bold type and as plainly as the accusation was made that the man was not guilty? This is really...
...responsible for it. He asserts that the commissioner, knew that the men were forming a union, and later knew that they were going to strike, but that he failed to take such action as would have ensured the safety of the city. Mr. Laski then made a more detailed statement regarding the situation as it now stands and suggested a remedy...
Plans for the erection of a memorial gate by the class of 1920 have been given up, according to an announcement made last night by the committee in charge. The statement of the committee is as follows...