Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only tried to do his duty-Russian style. He had brought Mrs. Kasenkina back from Countess Tolstoy's New York farm and held her incommunicado at the consulate. After she had jumped, Jake concocted one story. Then last week he tried another story. Mrs. Kasenkina had seen "a crowd running from the Hotel Pierre towards the consulate," he said, and it had frightened her. He said she was depressed by the "malicious fabrications" of the U.S. press and overwrought by "threats of the United States police" to haul her into court "by force." Mrs. Kasenkina had already said from...
Russell to the Rescue. Earl cried that he and Huey had settled their differences before the Kingfish died. At first this was a little embarrassing. One night Earl said: "Of course I disagreed with him sometimes, as a brother does." A voice from the crowd said: "We didn't." But Earl drafted his nephew Russell, and Russell told doubters: "The family is satisfied-I think that should satisfy...
...four special trains and twelve buses. Governor Dwight Green had the full treatment ready for Earl: a motorcade of 25 cars, a brass band, a platoon of state troopers, and aerial bombs. The grandstand was packed to overflowing. Warren spoke easily and informally-and for only 18 minutes. The crowd liked him fine...
...were sure of it. Judge Waring ordered the Democratic Party to open its enrollment books to Negroes and permit them "full participation in party affairs." He went even further. When a white man, Senatorial Candidate Alan Johnstone, rose to protest, the judge had him forcibly ejected. He told the crowd of Negroes who jammed his courtroom: "It is a disgrace when you have to come . . . and ask a judge to tell you how to be an American...
...consulate's paved backyard. They saw consulate staff members push at the heavy door (rolling the broken-boned woman roughly on her side) and in a clumsy panic, try to lift her. They saw two New York policemen, who had scaled the high iron fence around the courtyard, crowd in after the Russians as they carried her into the building...