Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plaza, meanwhile, were congregated some 1,600 "hunger marchers" who had trucked into the capital from the North and Mid-West by Communist leaders for demonstration purposes (TIME, Dec. 7). These tatterdemalions, a forlorn, hollow-eyed crew of whites and blacks, paraded under police escort singing...
Three days later, however, 14 persons appeared outside the White House as "hunger marchers." In a cold drizzle they unfurled their banners ("Mr. Hoover, We Demand Food & Lodging," "Mr. Hoover You Have Money for the Entertainment of the Fascist Assassin Grandi."). Promptly the police pounced on them, arrested all 14 for parading without a permit. Their leader, one Herbert Benjamin, loudly explained that when Congress sits (Dec. 7), 1,300 "hunger marchers" would be in Washington demonstrating for relief...
Next day the U. S. Secret Service paid Leader Benjamin the compliment of taking his "hunger march" seriously and thus helping to publicize it throughout the land. Chief Moran declared that his sleuths had learned the march was really a Communist demonstration on a large scale. "Marchers" from all parts of the country would be brought to Washington in 1,144 trucks, 92 automobiles. They would be lodged and fed along the way. They would have medical attention. They would defend themselves with stones. They would be organized in military fashion. They would petition the President and Congress for relief...
While Washington waited to see what would come of this fantastic scheme, "hunger marchers" in motor trucks got under way about the country. The Chicago contingent produced a riot in Hammond, Ind. Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia advised them to "pass by" his city. Hartford closed its streets to "hunger riders." Leader Benjamin denounced the Secret Service, declared: "A vast Red hysteria is being fomented...
Pennsylvania's Game Commissioner, Dr. T. E. Winecoff, wrote about it in American Game. An annual kill of 20,000 to 25,000 deer, he said, "cannot be missed in this State. The deer herd now far exceeds the carrying power of their wild range, and-forced by hunger-they have become appallingly destructive to crops, orchards, and the plantations' of young seedling trees set out by the Department of Forests & Waters for reforesting. And even after all their depredations on crops and orchards, large numbers of them, especially fawns, die every winter of starvation. . . . To increase game...