Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a band of them, cursing "Scabs" started for the mill. Police intervened, turned them back to camp. Inside, a fight between two strikers brought the police. The strikers' guard opened fire on the law. Chief Aderholt, three policemen and Joseph Harrison, a union organizer, were shot in the...
Vermont's Green, shot Feb. 15, 1924, as a bystander in a Pennsylvania Avenue rum-gun fracas, was voted $7,500 by the Senate. He spent the money to pay immediate medical bills, later repaying the full amount to the Senate Contingent Fund. A permanent pension for him was...
But Arizonans are bitter-enders. The Hunt-Colter fracas last week was only a minor skirmish on one side of the lines that will join battle again in Washington this winter.
The general public indifference to these increasingly common and increasingly fatal incidents is hardly understandable. Any doubt as to the guilt of a convicted man finds ready response in an aroused populace, but the murder of innocents in the prosecution of Prohibition or more reasonable laws is merely a news...
The fat boy was 12-year-old Jack Linder who weighed 341 pounds. He was the most honored guest at the garden party given by Thomas M. Farley, political leader of the Fourteenth Assembly District. Mr. Farley's district is full of Jewish, Italian and Irish constituents. All of...