Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral leadership" to Abraham Lincoln's, his maiden speech in the Senate was a spirited defense of the discredited President's administration. Never a member of the Ohio Gang, he nevertheless branded each investigation of its misdeeds as "an orgy of slander, a spree of muckraking, a riot of vituperation and incrimination...
...weeks ago the police prevented a possible rict from taking place in City Square with only minor injuries a week ago the National Guard fired into a raging riot in Teoedo, causing two deaths. This is not an unfair comparison for often in this country police have been forced, sometimes justly and sometimes unjustly, to adopt such tactics in a crisis of this sort. From this angle, the immediate usage of methods which involve only slight brutality to stop these demonstrations is more sensible than waiting until drastic steps are necessitated...
Cambridge isn't going to take any chances with the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then." The City Council voted unanimously to add to its list of stalwarts, six of the finest horses that money can buy, and if that doesn't fix those naughty boys, then nothing ever will...
...Harvard professors were among those who took the witness stand Saturday in the interests of the defendants in the "riot" trial which is rapidly nearing completion in the Charlestown District Court...
Daniel J. Burke, attorney for several of the defendants in the riot trial at Charlestown, which went into its second day yesterday was ordered out of the courtroom by Judge Charles S. Sullivan, presiding magistrate, at 11.58 yesterday morning when he tried to extract testimony from the police concerning the purpose of the demonstration last Thursday...