Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white police arrived on the scene to be met with a barrage of stones and bottles. Before long three officers were hospitalized. Thereupon, the police waded in roughly with nightsticks, made arrests right & left. At this critical point a hearse drove up, destined for a house in the neighborhood. "They've come for the child's body!" shrieked a black woman. For the rest of the night most of Harlem gave itself over to riot, pillage and bloodshed...
...Chicago, Grocer John Baguilais forbade neighborhood urchins to enter his store on roller skates. His wife thwacked them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...
...Everyone knows that. Well, yesterday morning the Vagabond was lolling in one of the new non-squeakers at table 21, when he noticed something about the arrangement of the chairs that made his eyes dilate with horror. All the non-squeakers in the room were concentrated in the immediate neighborhood of the central information desk...
Mount Auburn Street, and all intersecting streets will be shut off from traffic for blocks around, and officers will patrol the immediate neighborhood. In the vacant house opposite the Club a watch will be stationed, and detectives will be posted in windows overlooking the scene...
...Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U. S. in Brooklyn. She distributed circulars in English, Yiddish and Italian offering help to neighborhood women. Police arrested her, got her a 30-day jail sentence. Thereafter she became cautious in her public activities...