Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auction Riot Lexington, Ky. is the scene each year of the biggest tobacco auctions in the U. S. But last week tobacco-men watched the smaller towns of Owensboro and Henderson instead. At Owensboro some 3,000 farmers collected around the main warehouse or ''floor'' for the year's first auction. A big, one-story frame building, covered with sheet metal, the "floor"' is a store room where buyers can see the actual lots of tobacco they buy, while each seller plainly hears what his neighbor gets for his crop. Most tobacco growers...
...seven '"floors" in the town. Farmers rejected bids right & left, began to mill about excitedly shouting. "You can't take our tobacco that way!" In the confusion someone began throwing apples at six-foot Mr. Crabtree, who dodged handily, but the auction, now a riot, was called off. Only 78,000 lb. of dark leaf tobacco, mostly for export to Europe for making cheap cigars, have been sold...
While Washington waited to see what would come of this fantastic scheme, "hunger marchers" in motor trucks got under way about the country. The Chicago contingent produced a riot in Hammond, Ind. Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia advised them to "pass by" his city. Hartford closed its streets to "hunger riders." Leader Benjamin denounced the Secret Service, declared: "A vast Red hysteria is being fomented...
Patriot. Fortnight ago in Philadelphia, one Orlandi Spartaco, 26, jumped on the running board of a car carrying Dino Grandi, Fascist Italy's visiting Foreign Minister. Jabbering, "Down with Grandi! Down with Fascism!" Anti-Fascist Spartaco was dragged off to jail, sentenced to two riot." To years Governor imprisonment Gifford for Pinchot "inciting to last week sleek, smiling, politic Minister Grandi wired : "I have not the slightest intention of interfering with the administration of justice in this country, but I feel that I could make a personal appeal to you to take into consideration the possibility...
...States mine coal, probably five more are underlaid with it. This brings about inevitable complications. Coal operators cut each others' throats, often selling their product below the margin of a safe return on their investment. The real pain of the trouble is transmitted to the miners, who strike, riot, threaten, starve in the throes of wretched living conditions and inadequate wages. Since 1919 this has been the condition, steadily growing graver, in an industry which is capitalized at two and one-half billion dollars, whose product was valued at 1.3 billions in 1929 and whose employes during the same...