Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day Acting Mayor Walmsley declared: "Anarchy must cease." In answer two street cars were dynamited. Labor leaders called upon the Council to apologize, to repudiate Gus Williams as a "red." The Council proclaimed the attack as "the most unheard of demonstration in the history of the city," ordered more policemen recruited...
...when he faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55, weak-minded widow. Her account of the attack was lurid. Her two granddaughters, posing as eyewitnesses, embellished the tale by telling how Wright had flourished pistols, one in each hand...
...General Andrews served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition from 1925 to 1927. Last fortnight he declined to comment on Mrs. Willebrandt's attack, explained he now never discusses Prohibition...
Round Four. By now, of course, negotiations had reached total deadlock. The Latin delegations?maneuvered by M. Briand who himself spoke seldom?had dodged the Snowden attack by treating it as bluff. Such a wild man, they indicated, could not be speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making...
Died. Henry S. Pickands, 53, of Cleveland, Great Lakes coal, ore and shipping tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.); in his Cleveland office; of heart attack...