Word: rabat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet figured it had acted none too soon when news came that Moroccan natives 1,000 strong had risen at Khemisset with knives and guns, were besieging the French garrison which had barricaded itself. Ten planes followed by troops from Rabat forced the Insurrectionists to submit and a French court-martial working at top speed sentenced 70 arrested persons to prison terms of from one to ten years, restored quiet...
Accompanied by two detectives and a score of newsmen, a plumpish priest in Roman collar and rabat bustled through Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal one afternoon last week. More police were waiting near the platform gate. Two nights before, Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. radiorator, had whipped a prodigious Hippodrome crowd up into a red-hot frenzy of approval for President Roosevelt's monetary program. He had also stepped on some very important Catholic toes. Now, still parrying newshawks' questions, he swung aboard his train just as it pulled out, settled down for the journey back to Detroit...