Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thounsand Harvard undergraduates, many of them drunk, attacked early today a girls' school"-- so ran the lead sentence in the London Daily Express story of the riot here two weeks ago. Although Harvard was spoken of as "America's Number One University," the battle put up by Radcliffe was featured throughout...
Four M.I.T. students also appeared in the same court. Donald Cole of Belmont was sentenced to a total of four months in the house of correction and fined $10. The $10 charge was made for malicious destruction of a policeman's coat at the Technology Riot...
Judge Stone stated in reference to the Harvard riot: "There seems to be some idea that there is something sacred about the person of a Tech or Harvard student and that the police should not touch them. That is not the fact...
...picketers, and when they sent out the first truckload of their products, the strikers tossed more rocks to stop it. Returning tear-gas bombs, police charged into battle. The scuffle stopped when the truck retreated into the plant. The strikers jeered the sheriff when he appeared to read the Riot Act. For safety's sake, the non-union workers decided to stay inside...
...last resort it is expected that they will file claims for the cost of gasoline for the squad cars, for one gross of tear gas bombs, one book entitled "How to Break Up a Riot," and two broken policemen's clubs...