Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police raids stopped. After a weekend lull, police evicted sit-downers in a printing plant, a W. P. A. station. Labor and the Law moved toward a showdown as Detroit's City Council unanimously refused the automobile union's request for permission to stage a huge mass meeting in Cadillac Square, and Homer Martin blustered that he would hold it anyway...
Police stopped a car carrying five young men to an anti-Nationalist mass meeting and were flabbergasted when the youths opened fire. When one policeman and four of the youths, members of the tiny Independence Party, lay dead, the car was found to be loaded with bombs. Then five months later Colonel Francis Riggs, Insular Chief of Police, was assassinated by two young Nationalists as he drove home from Sunday morning mass. The two assassins were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican...
...manual arts shop in the basement, John Nelson, 17, was working on a lathe. His teacher was standing about five feet away. There were 15 other boys in the room. Then a big mass of sand and what looked like a ball of fire tumbled in. Something hit John Nelson's leg and slit the front of his pants. It felt "like a charley horse you get playing football...
...streets held a steady cavalcade of death. In the Pleasant Hill Cemetery shifts of workers were put to digging 400 graves. From Dallas came 200 coffins. On Saturday night almost every store except the telegraph office was deserted. On Sunday families buried their dead in a great mass funeral. Standing with the hundreds of parents on the Cemetery hillside were nurses to help the mourners who collapsed or fainted...
Chief U. S. illusion, says Priestley, is the notion that Americans are dyed-in-the-wool individualists, and for that reason hostile to the Russian collectivist scheme. The truth, he argues, pointing to the easy way of mass U. S. propaganda, to the lavish Russian imitation of U. S. ways, is exactly the other way round. "That is why," he concludes, "America is the country of awful flops and sudden gigantic successes." In short, "the average modern American" is a socialist at heart, but does not know...