Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power warily, being careful to observe the law of the district in which he serves, and to handle drunk and disorderly service men with some degree of tact. In addition to his World War I job of sniffing out spies and saboteurs, he now has to turn out for riot duty and plant protection, which means tossing out defense strikers with neatness and dispatch. He is charged with safeguarding Army property, trained to man age traffic, both civilian and military. To keep him in fettle, he is drilled in wrestling, boxing and jujitsu, is supposed to be as well versed...
Three Fascists escaped in a boat from Peveril Internment Camp near Peel. Paddling their way toward Ireland, they were captured, dunked into Douglas jail, refused permission to return to camp. Their friends at Peveril immediately started a riot in protest. Two hundred odd internees pelted guards with bottles, jugs, brickbats and other loose articles. The riot went on for six hours. Twice an armistice was called for parleying. Each time no terms were reached and the bombardment was resumed...
...Camp Commandant, who was away when the riot occurred, contented himself with chiding the Fascists thus: "I am disturbed at the manner in which you have behaved during my absence. I thought you would play the game...
...aviation. Even more significant for future U.S. labor relations had been the metamorphosis of the Board's own tri-partite personnel (representatives of management, labor and the public). Weighted with responsibilities, labor's own men had cracked down on many a reckless strike leader, read him the riot act. Management's men had shaken angry, executive fingers at hard-headed fellow employers. Out of one stubborn conference with employers a mediator-industrialist stamped, stormed: "Somebody ought to show those damn fools they're 40 years behind the times...
...Down with Vichy!", "Down with the occupying authorities!", "Long live Russia!" Of six people killed and 19 wounded, when police fired on the crowd, the Nazi-controlled Paris press growled, "Jews and Communists!" Same day, two miles away in the traditionally Red St. Denis district, police quelled another roaring riot. Following day, Nazi authorities revealed a wave of arson was sweeping both zones in France, issued a blunt warning to Communist saboteurs and propagandists that they were "liable to the death penalty." Latest arson victims: three large factories producing German war supplies. Train wrecks were multiplying so rapidly that Paris...