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Word: riot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moor. Convicts had broken into the warden's office and attempted to steal the keys. Every man in Princetown, the little village under the prison walls, was given a rifle and posted near the jail. The central cell block roared up in flames, the clock tower fell. Guards with riot guns stood on ladders and popped at every cropped head that showed above the parapet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Broad Arrows | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...somebody fired on the mob. As another crowd stormed the jail and attempted to lynch the 70 Tradicionalistas who had taken refuge there, 30 artillerymen saved their lives. Police searched the convents and monasteries of Bilbao for hidden arms. Socialists held a public funeral for the victims of the riot, and declared a general strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Burning at Both Ends | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...start with a riot. The excuse was a series of anti-Japanese editorials in the Chinese Republican Daily News, and the tousling of five Japanese monks by a gang of coolies. Promptly a group of Japanese naval officers called on the editor in his office in the International Settlement, gave him 24 hours to print an apology "on pain of adopting suitable measures." The monks were avenged by a lone Japanese who attacked a Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Terror in Shanghai | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

Observers interpreted last week's raid as a feeler. If the world grew incensed at this invasion of Chinese territory, Japan had an excuse: there was a riot, she had landed troops to suppress the riot. If the world, as it seemed to, overlooked it, Japan could try again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Jewel Raided | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Terror of the dictatorship of paunchy Miguel Primo de Rivera was the quick-triggered, shiny-hatted Guardia Civil. Since the foundation of the Republic those formidable constables have been meek as lambs. Fortnight ago a riot broke out in Castilblanco. Four of the Guardia Civil lost their lives, and since then they have stood no more nonsense. After Castilblanco there were a half-dozen clashes between guards and strikers throughout Spain. Twenty-four people were killed; in one stretch of 48 hours eleven citizens died, 60 were wounded. In the Cortes. Socialist deputies threatened a general strike and attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Since Castilblanco | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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