Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After presenting an excellent analysis of the Harlem riot, the writer declares that Harlem's unique assets are flagrantly exploited by whites; Jews own the successful colored bands, the Cotton Club, all Harlem's saloons, its brothels, its $50,000,000 a year policy game business . . . its markets and most of its real estate...
Over the wires of a great and hard-boiled news service last week came the lead "BERLIN RAN RIOT WITH ROMANCE TODAY...
...years teachers and pupils fussed over the. Germanic script. While Miss Connor was in school, a devastating reaction set in. Standards collapsed right & left. Youngsters were allowed to run riot with pen and paper, express their personalities in rough squiggles, gross curlicues, boorish scrawls. "Horace Greeley's writing was responsible for this horrid idea," explained Miss Connor. "Just because he was a great man with a dreadful handwriting, it followed that all great men must have dreadful hands...
...Nigger Hell." Among the first settlers on Manhattan Island were eleven blacks, who arrived with the Dutch in 1626. The first New York City race riot occurred under the English in 1712, when a wild rumor that slaves were plotting to massacre the whites condemned 21 Negroes to death. In 1741 a similar tale circulated by a white servant girl caused the colonists to burn 14 Negroes "alive with a slow fire until dead and consumed to ashes," hang 18 more. Refusing to be impressed into the war to make Negroes free, shanty Irishmen in 1863 staged the historic "Draft...
...record. Pugilist Joe Choynsky, who once fought James J. Corbett on a barge in San Francisco Bay. was the Chicago coach. After four men had been carried out of the pool unconscious, Pugilist Choynsky hit Swimmer Ruddy on the jaw. Swimmer Ruddy then hit Choynsky in the eye. A riot started. Among the spectators were Mrs. Ruddy, Anna Held. Both fainted. The Amateur Athletic Union promptly dropped water polo from its schedule until a year...