Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City of Brotherly Love last week joined Harlem, Brooklyn, Rochester, Elizabeth, Jersey City and Dixmoor on the list of places where race riots have steamed up the North's long, hot summer. And Philadelphia's violence was even more senseless than most. The blame could not even be placed on both races, since the riot was all-Negro and it was unprovoked by any incident that could conceivably be considered a' civil rights violation...
...fiery Rules session, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, Judiciary Committee chairman, sputtered angrily about the treatment he was getting from Smith, but was even more dismayed at the potential effect of Tuck's bill. "If you can take away jurisdiction over reapportionment today," Celler said, "tomorrow you can take away jurisdiction over civil rights, and the next day over antitrust cases." Countered Tuck: "This may be a harsh method, but I know no other way to see the right thing done...
Kings County (Brooklyn...
Soon after quelling Negro riots in Harlem and Brooklyn, New York City police totted up the cost as $1,500,000 -a bill that included everything from overtime pay to extra ammunition. But that figure may be nowhere near the eventual total, said the New York Law Journal last week. Fact is that every city and county in New York State is liable for all property damage incurred in all riots. In New York City the recent riots destroyed or damaged at least 540 stores and caused other uncalculated losses...
...entrenched Union Army of several times that number at Gettysburg, was he being exceptionally courageous? Or exceptionally foolhardy? Or exceptionally bullheaded (his generals to a man had advised him against a frontal assault)? None of these, according to Psychologist Norman Kiell, an assistant professor at New York's Brooklyn College. He was responding instead to what one study of group psychology called "the early ego identifications of childhood" that exist between "the group and the group leader...