Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want to use a lot of hungry and desperate suckers as demonstration puppets and they are more pleased than not when the poor boobs get all bloodied...
...Progressive also sent the Senate a report on the Memorial Day massacre in which ten men were fatally shot outside the gates of Republic Steel's South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). After the open hearings in Washington and the showing of the famed Paramount newsreel of the riot, it was obvious whom the La Follette Committee would blame- the Chicago police. Concluded the Committee...
Hopping mad was Chicago officialdom when the La Follette findings were released. Far from demonstrating remorse, officials were preparing to prosecute, for conspiracy to riot, some 65 strikers, sympathizers and bystanders who were arrested during the riot. Moreover a six-man coroner's jury had just white-washed the police with a report of "justifiable homicide...
...daring, quick-witted, with expressive eyes, a mobile face, a wide-ranged resonant voice, the gift of oratory and an intuitive awareness of jury reactions, Lawyer Liebowitz' court successes came so unbelievably as to make him appear hypnotic. The hardest case he ever had, the Max Becker prison riot murder in 1930, seemed so clear-cut against his client that when the jury brought in its verdict of not guilty, Liebowitz fainted...
PERILOUS SANCTUARY-D. J. Hall- Macmillan ($2.50). Adventures and soulful taming of a lusty, hot-headed English fugitive among New Mexico's flagellant sect of Penitentes. Another example of the Southwest's inevitable incitement to mystical riot in English writers...