Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face-saver offered him the Governor Generalship of Morocco. The telephone connection was very bad. "Mon Dieu!" cried Premier Daladier to the Cabinet Members in his office, "he refuses and says he will be in the street tonight." The Cabinet decided that Chiappe was going to lead a riot in person...
...meantime the Daladier cabinet has received a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies which will probably not be of much consolation if the riot of yesterday was any indication of the temper of the majority of the people. The cabinet is obviously banking on the hypothesis that it is not, that while the populace has been profoundly stirred by the official corruption, their faith in parliamentarians is still unimpaired. Most reliable reports would seem to substantiate this theory; but in French politics there is very little information that can be called reliable, and parliament Aryanism, which entered France...
Instantly the auditorium was a bedlam. Booing, shouting, shoving spectators tore chairs from the floor, heaved them into the ring, pulled down draperies, ripped out telephones. The riot lasted for a full half hour, ended only when Browning and Savoldi decided to defy the curfew and return to the mat. After another half hour, Savoldi flew feet first at Browning's chin (the "drop-kick"), missed, crashed on his back. Browning fell on him, won the match. Next day the Commission formally repealed its curfew order...
...South Africa wild rumors that "Roosevelt will buy unlimited foreign gold," caused a near riot on Johannesburg 'Change as frantic brokers bid up "kaffirs" (mining shares) to dizzy highs on orders from London and towns all over South Africa...
...little riot developed when Religion's spokesman for Birth Control, Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore, exclaimed: "If you members of the Committee think birth control is immoral, then pass a law that will drive contraceptives out of every home in the nation...