Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee Ignatz Rewolinski, 250-Ib. policeman, was pushed through a window of a county food station, slightly cut, when a noonday breadline began to riot. Arrests...
Water Polo. First riot of the Xth Olympiad occurred after the first match in the water polo tournament, when Germany had beaten Brazil, 7 to 3. Angered by the decisions of the referee, huge Bela Komjadi of Hungary, two of the Brazilians crawled out of the pool and attacked him. Their teammates helped them. The Germans helped Referee Komjadi. Dr. Leo Donath of Hungary, secretary of the International Swimming Federation, tried to stop the fight. Police arrived and whacked him as well as the battling contestants. Bruised and bitter, Dr. Donath left the arena. Said Referee Komjadi: "The Brazilians have...
...brother, Robert Cabel Graham, and a priest were taking him to the Loyola House of Retreat in Morristown, N. J. after sanitarium treatment for a nervous breakdown. He eluded them, leaped into McGregor Creek. Died. George Shinault, Washington policeman who killed William Hushka in the Bonus army riot (TIME, Aug. 8); of a bullet wound inflicted while breaking up a street fight; in Washington, D. C. Died, Dr. Graham Wallas, 74, sociologist, political scientist, author (Human Nature in Politics, The Great Society, The Art of Thought); in Cornwall, England. Distinguished in appearance, Dr. Wallas was a witness at George Bernard...
...serious riot occurred. . . . This area contains thousands of brickbats and these were used by the rioters in their attack upon the police. ... It 'will be impossible to maintain law & order except by the free use of firearms which will make the situation a dangerous one. The presence of Federal troops will result in far less violence and bloodshed...
...small salary, his only regular source of income. Better than money, it gave him an opportunity to run for office, spread his gospel. Between campaigns he threw himself into labor disputes, less as an agitator or organizer than as a defender of civil rights. For publicly denouncing the Riot Act to strikers from the Passaic, N. J. textile mills in 1926, he was arrested, jailed, held in $10,000 bail. He was again seized last year for picketing with strikers from the Paterson silk mills. Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry...