Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened the way for a gasoline tax, and for reorganization of the governmental machinery. So vigorously has Governor Byrd carried on these beginnings that a contemplated bond issue has been avoided and Virginia has been said to have a "Mussolini." In supporting the Smith candidacy against the assault of Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Virginia's dry bourgeoisie, he has demanded a vote of confidence in the Byrd record...
...This the political hoodlum, highbinder, and hijacking combination which had things in hand until the votes were counted April 10 after a campaign of political assassination, house bombing, ballot box stuffing, intimidation, assault and every kind of gang terrorism...
When several days succeeded this assault without any demand for satisfaction being made by London upon Rome, the British Labor press bitterly recalled that at least three members of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet are notoriously Mussoliniphile...
...street-cars were besieged, and their trolleys disconnected. One of the Yale men was speedily arrested and led jail-wards, but this act served only to center the attention of the crowd upon the police officers and a force of rescuers marched in pursuit of the captive. A frontal assault upon the New Haven police headquarters, covered by a brief barrage of brick-bats, was repulsed with the loss of several more prisoners. Still unqualified, the student forces dispatched skirmish parties to create a diversion. This was done effectively by the turning in of a false fire alarm...
...turf invariably produce as stern and thrilling competition as may be found in any of the country's great athletic meets. Star performers of more than forty colleges from the University of Southern California in the south-west to Dartmouth in the north-east give assurance of serious assault on existing records; the great variety of competitors, many of whom have never faced each other before, make upsets and hair breadth finishes a foregone conclusion...