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Word: fracases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Picket lines of portly butchers were promptly swung around kosher shops which refused to close, bringing on as lusty a brawling as in any A. F. of L.C. I. O. fracas. A plea to reopen from their president and from now on the Commissioner of Markets was met in open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Beef Strike | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Alert, adaptable Roy Davis has had two separate and successful careers. He got his political start as a page to U. S. Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, continued it after taking a Ph.B. degree at Brown in 1910 as secretary to the commission in charge of building the Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Park to Davis | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Dean Hanford, speaking for President Conant by mail, indicated that the University's endorsing possible expulsion for undergraduates participating in riots remains unchanged. His official statement, issued the morning after the May 3 fracas, deplored riots.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Hanford Repeats Stand On Riots in Letter to Bishop | 5/12/1937 | See Source »

"We have received no bill yet," was the only authoritative statement which came from University Hall yesterday in connection with the bill which the Cambridge City Council voted to send the University for "damages done to city property" during the fracas Monday night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Hall Awaits Bill From City As Cops Go to Get Money's Worth | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

Over 400 Bursar's cards were picked up by the Yard Police, and approximately 40 students were interviewed by the various Deans in University Hall yesterday as a result of Monday night's fracas in the Square.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACTION ON RIOTERS IS PUT OFF TWO WEEKS | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

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