Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Military Government, were told that since the demonstration had no permit, the police could go ahead and) break it up. Cops formed a line in the path of the crowd, but the Jews marched right through it. Two mounted police squads bore down on the demonstrators, who fought back with stones, bricks and clubs. Shots cracked; three Jews fell, wounded by bullets. Enraged, the D.P.s overturned and burned a police truck, injured 26 policemen with bricks. Two companies of U.S. military police arrived. With a Jewish Army chaplain, they persuaded the demonstrators to disperse...
...devil was back in San Marino...
...half ago, lives quietly with his mistress in a rented stone bungalow. He wears yellow velvet gloves, talks more on the long-distance telephone than anyone else in the republic. From the Convent of St. Francis, Maxim has been seen slipping into the Communist casino's back door. A black-bearded monk summed up the general suspicion. "Here in San Marino," he said, "there exists Bolshevism in yellow velvet gloves, but still Bolshevism. It is directed by Maximo Maxim...
Early this year, Lohman considered selling out and going back to Texas. But nothing came of the idea. Last week, caudillo-like, he was holding court at Red Wells-now promising a young Indian more corn for his squaw, now buying 30 cattle from a small rancher so that the man could pay for his wedding. "I think my place is right here in the Chaco," he said. "That's where I belong...
Professional equality is a primary aim of Negro doctors. In the South, most state and county medical societies bar Negro members. Whenever the N.M.A. (4,000 members) has tried to get itself taken into the A.M.A. (140,000 members) in a bloc, as a back-door entry for Southern Negroes, it has been rebuffed...