Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver, dissatisfied because the State relief administrator had cut the number of days of relief work provided for unemployed, 1,000 relief workers went on strike for his removal. After throwing the tools of nonstriking workers into the Platte River, some 300 strikers precipitated a riot when police arrested their leader...
Police reserves were on hand to prevent a riot by Communist students who threatened to break up a pre-game homecoming parade at University of California at Los Angeles. The only riot Los Angeles witnessed was started by Stanford's Grayson who gained 129 yd., made two of the touchdowns that smashed...
While Colonel Charles R. (Break-it-up) Apted '06, paternal guardian of Harvard Freshmen, wined, dined, and danced last night at his palatial mansion on Sumner Road, the hot flames of rebellion and riot swept through Harvard Yard with the violence of an unleashed tornado...
...Cambridge's mayoral processions touched off the smouldering spark at 8 o'clock last night, with a mob of about twenty Freshmen gathering to cheer and later to yell 'Rinehart." While Yard cops searched nooks and crannies of the Yard for the missing Colonel, the riot grew to Gargantuan proportions, practically doubling its original number of recruits. Only heroic action by the Yard's defenders broke the back of the rebellion...
...Unfortunately after the last few football games the riots around the goal posts have been growing ever larger and ever more dangerous. It sometimes seems as if some people went to the games more for the riot than to see the football game...