Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomacy."* Mr. Caffery had not been idle. Shifting from President Grau, on whom he first used suasion, he conferred repeatedly last week with Cuba's bantam generalissimo, ex-Sergeant Fulgencio Batista who commands the entire army with the modest rank of Colonel. According to correspondents, "Caffery read the riot act to Batista." Out to the army post at Camp Columbia hurried Batista and most of Cuba's politicos, excepting Surgeon Grau who shut himself up in the Presidential Palace. After hours of wrangling in the ballroom of Camp Columbia word was passed out to correspondents...
...counted noses before the game with the city's Japanese team at Kezar Stadium last week, twelve players were missing, including Charley Chan, onetime star of Commerce High School. The absentees were less afraid of their opponents, or the possibility of the game's ending in a riot as it did the last time they played in 1930, than they were of their parents. Most Chinese families had forbidden their sons to play with the Japanese boys since matters had gone so far in Manchuria. Of the 2,000 Orientals in the grandstand only 150 were Chinese...
...Billings case were nipped coldly when the jury in a Queens County Court declared Athos Terzani, taxi driver with a mission, not guilty of the murder of his friend Anthony Fierro. Both good leftists, they went to a meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America, during which meeting a riot inadvertently began, as a result of which riot comrade Fierro ceased to be a danger to American fascism. Terzani was arrested; there was the prescribed amount of cooked-up evidence, lax investigation of complete facts, desire on the part of the prosecutor for conviction not justice; and also there were...
...Manhattan's fashionable Dr. Henry Darlington dispatched from his Fifthavian church a telegram to Governor Rolph: "Congratulations on the stand you have taken." He added: "Maybe we needed something like this right now to let our criminals realize that they cannot run riot." After protests from his Bishop, and while divinity students picketed his Sunday service, Dr. Darlington admitted that his message was the result of being "deeply stirred," that "it should not have been sent...
...governed by a group historically associated with the solidification of the present social and economic order. The trouble with forums and the people who patronize them is a major dislocation of the weather eye; Fascism is not a scholastic question like Monism-- it is a practical question, like a riot or a revolution. POLLUX...