Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plea was for a 24-hour armistice between shippers and strikers. It came at a crucial moment, just as San Francisco businessmen threatened to send in strike breakers and open the port. If the port were opened by such forcible methods everyone knew it would be a signal for riot and bloodshed. The board found just one big point still in dispute: Should employers or the union run the "hiring halls," where will be drawn up the lists from which stevedores are to be engaged...
...Berlin the pouncing of Captain Göring's Secret Police was savage in the extreme. Riot trucks bristling with rifles dashed up and down the main streets while newspapers were rigidly prevented from printing a word about what was going on. No Cabinet Minister seemed to be trusted for the offices of all were occupied by Secret Police and S. S. Storm Troops who shot an aide of Vice Chancellor von Papen as they swept in. This aide, Herr von Bose, was officially reported a suicide until it could no longer be concealed that his death...
...Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell who discussed with him - according to Dr. Hanfstaengl - Bismarck, Demosthenes, the art of public speaking and Hitler as an orator. While special correspondents of all leading news services hung around Dr. Hanfstaengl day after day on the chance that his presence would start a race riot, he parried their questions with 100% Teuton wit. Asked whether Adolf Hitler or Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the better orator, he chuckled: "Ha, Ha! That is like asking which is better in a storm, umbrellas or overshoes...
...rain coat standing beside their gorgeous Duce might be, shouted nothing but "Viva Mussolini!" Only a few German flags and a sprinkling of Nazi swastikas had been put up among the riot of Italian flags and Fascist banners. Except for some Ger mans who gathered on the opposite side of the Grand Canal and cheered them selves hoarse, the landing of Adolf Hitler at the Grand Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw...
Harvard last week received another token of the esteem in which it is held by Cambridge, Mass. To curb the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then," Councilman Charles H. Shea proposed in Council that the city buy six horses (at $200 each) for its police. Said he: "We need mounted police for the Harvard students. I don't know if they are Communists, Bolsheviks or nuts, but we should be ready to cope with them...