Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to seat the crowd in a local tobacco warehouse, we moved to the Rocky Mount Ballpark (pictured but not mentioned in your story). Then it rained. Under a canopy rigged by attaching the home plate canvas covering to a 300-ft. cable swung from the roof of the stadium, Dr. Swalin and his orchestra performed to 6,000 white and Negro county school kids, bettering by 3,000 any previous audience...
...when strikers tried to rough him up amid cries of "Kill him! Hang the fat swine!" When strikers stormed the Schöneberg elevated station, Communist railway police inside unleashed four police dogs. When this did not stop the strikers, the police gave up and were escorted through the crowd, to shouts of "Go back to your Russian masters...
...Sunday at Charlottenburg, in the British sector, a crowd of 2,000, some of them young toughs between eight and 16 who had no connection with the union, stormed up the station's sandy slope to capture a train bringing Communists from the Soviet sector to occupy stations down the line. A striker leaped into the engineer's cab, slammed on the brake. As the train bumped to a halt, Communist cops began shooting into the crowd. Four times the station changed hands; twelve were seriously wounded. Finally German police from the British sector took over. The Communist...
During the protest rally, which took place on a street corner, a student named Irving Feiner addressed the crowd for around ten minutes. He was then arrested on the charge of "disorderly conduct...
...Y.P.A. organized a rally, attended by 1,000 students, to protest the university's decision. Feiner himself addressed the crowd, and remarked, "I'll be around Syracuse for a long, long time." But Syracuse's Chancellor, William P. Tolley, stated, "The university will not modify its decision...