Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two angry little men had a fracas in Manhattan's great Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine last Sunday. One little man, Bishop William Thomas Manning, damned the other in his sermon. The other little man, onetime Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, was tensely listening directly below the...
Birth Control. Secretary Wilbur also got into a fracas, but outside the agenda of the conference. Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, president of the American Birth Control League and a conference invitee, wanted the conference to report on birth control. Her efforts (she said) "brought only ridicule and curt replies. . . . Not...
They did. Hurling bricks, bottles, shooting guns, they broke the cordon of troops, set the courthouse aflame, hacked the hose of arriving firemen. In the fracas, John Melton and Floyd Barker were shot by comrades. The $60,000 building was demolished. George Hughes, in his vault, eventually roasted to death...