Word: graban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School in Campbell, Ohio, one morning last week 800 pupils milled excitedly, shouting at 200 who were pressed anxiously against the windows inside. Those outside were "on strike" because School Superintendent Andrew S. Klinko had abruptly shifted Memorial's popular journalism instructor, sandy-haired 29-year-old Michael Graban, to a grade school. Up sped a squadron of police, ordered the strikers to disperse. When they refused, the police, hardened by many a riot in nearby steelmaking Youngstown, tossed two tear gas bombs into their midst, drove them coughing and sneezing down the street...
Next day as Campbell simmered over that outrage, with Mayor John J. Borak scolding Police Chief Frank Cunningham and Chief Cunningham scolding his men, the Board of Education ended the strike by shushing Superintendent Klinko, promising to look into Instructor Graban's case itself...