Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor, kicked, cuffed, pounded, pummeled. He drew his gun, fired shots along the floor, hit two legs, a toe, an arm in the crowd. Blood ran. Police sirens shrieked for reserves. Night sticks twirled, the mob swirled. It took an hour to drive the rioters out of the City Hall, down the steps. A trolley was passing on St. Charles St. The crowd jerked off its rod, stoned in its windows, punched up its "scab" motorman. For violating a Federal injunction protecting Public Service property, three men were seized by U. S. marshals, sentenced to jail by U. S. Circuit...
Blood splattered on the marble floor of the New Orleans City Hall last week as, for a second time, the street car strike in that city went berserk. Politics and Labor mixed to make an unholy brew of violence...
...three flights of steps to the colonnaded City Hall marched several hundred strikers and sympathizers. At a mass meeting the night before they had heard Gus Williams, Recorder of Mortgages, Labor candidate for Mayor, urge them to "storm the City Hall until your demands are satisfied." Within the massive stone building, they turned down the righthand corridor, pressed into the Council Chamber, overflowed its 150 chairs, jammed themselves against the creaky wooden railings. With George Washington and Andrew Jackson looking down from the walls, they booed the police, cheered their leaders, itched for action. Behind a table sat the Council...
...with the election of a coalition executive board, headed by Dr. Weizmann including three names famed in U. S. Jewry: Lotus Lipsky, Zionist editor of Manhattan, and Publicist Henrietta Szold and Rabbi Meyer Berlin, two one-time Manhattanites now living in Jerusalem. All eyes then turned toward Zurich Town Hall and the first council meeting of the All-Jewish Union...
...stately halls of Kronberg castle there was last week babbling in many tongues, laughter, chatter, applause. Two thousand delegates to the International Educationists' Congress fought for room in the old knights' hall. Those who could not get in scurried off to the great privy council hall where loud speakers squawked preparatory to relaying speeches from the knights' hall...