Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the National Student League found themselves in another difficult situation early Friday when they became involved in the riot between strikers and the Columbus police in conjunction with the strike at the Columbus Packing Company...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...
...order, that the present bell is firmly screwed to the desk, rung by a lever at the top. Like a head waiter, President Bouisson has spent his working hours in full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped his hat on his bald head. When the President of the Chamber of Deputies puts on his silk topper the Chamber is automatically adjourned...
...result of the riot, none of the managers of other teams which competed yesterday could be reached by the manager of intramural sports...
Fearing that New Orleans audiences "might riot" if shown The March of Time's sequence on Huey Long, the Manhattan headquarters staff of Loew's Theatres Inc. ordered that sequence deleted in that city. Fearing a revenge tax from the Long Gang if the sequence were not deleted, and riots from anti-Longsters if it were, the Sanger Circuit decided not to show this March of Time issue at all in Louisiana...