Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the fourteenth amendment is attacked in New Orleans upon the ground that a "person of African blood and descent . . . is inherently incapable of becoming a citizen of the United States", it is not to be supposed that come digger-up of dead issues is engineering a senseless assault upon impregnable principles. The fourteenth amendment gave the negro political equality with the white man, but far from settling the race problem, it simply ended one stage of its development and inaugurated another...
...because they have been well protected. But if they don't get what they deserve in this trial, I am not so sure they won't hear the cry of the mob!" Judge Caverly ordered this statement stricken from the record, "as being a cowardly and dastardly assault upon the integrity of this court...
Tariff. "The tariff afforded an opening to hosts of privilege for an assault less direct but far more devastating to the public pocketbook. We are told that America in 1921 was threatened from abroad by an 'impending avalanche of suddenly cheapened merchandise' from which it was narrowly saved by the beneficent action of the Fordney-McCumber tariff...
...Democrats, had attacked General Dawes for his "consistent anti-union activity." Said the organization, through its spokesman (not Mr. Gompers but its Vice President, Matthew Woll*) : "General Dawes has said that Samuel Gompers and other Trade Union officials are more concerned about the right of Union men to assault and murder peaceful citizens than about upholding the law of the land. No one has made a more vicious and unwarranted declaration than that...
...from her toy bank and was appointed Secretary of the Transit Commission after an acrimonious debate on the part that women will play in the national election. Conservative estimates placed the damage at $10,000. At the hospital the victim said his attention had been called to the assault shortly after the gangster had shot him down...