Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quash the credits for the French Embassy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 9) has caused heated controversy between those Catholics who are not Socialists and those who are. The Communists of Marseilles capitalized the dispute for their own violent ends. Armed with stilettos and revolvers, they caused a riot at General Castelnau's meeting, attacked many priests...
Police arrived early, on the scene, but so obstreperous were the Communists that it took an hour to quell the riot. The most serious part of the disturb ance was when the Communists, who had failed to break up the meeting, took pot shots in the dark at persons leaving the Theatre des Nations. This caused cavalry to charge with drawn swords and the net result was two persons killed and about 100 more or less seriously wounded...
...sympathy of the alumni, or finding that their wrongs had become intolerable, held a mass meeting, indulged in declamations, shouts,'until interrupted by the police. Five leaders were led off, protesting, to the city jail of Nashville, there lodged. Next day, on charges of inciting to riot, they were tried in a courtroom crowded with black and white faces, sentenced to a suspended fine...
...obstreperous five Dr. McKenzie expelled. Feeling boiled against him. Undergraduates stated that there had been no riot, that the mass meeting had quieted long before the arrival of the police, that the names of the arrested students had been furnished to the police by Dr. McKenzie himself and were merely the names of men who had protested to the Board of Trustees in June against his policies. When, on the morning after the trial, students and faculty assembled for chapel service, a spokesman addressed Dr. McKenzie, declared that he must reinstate the five, or all Fisk students would "strike...
...forward berth where he played best, on last year's Freshman outfit. Rauh returned to the center job he held last year, and Jones was used as an alternate at forward. This combination failed to function in the first period, while Baldwin and Slocum, the 1928 forward pair, ran riot through the Crimson defense. In the second period, Coach Wachter's quintet, with the best passing attack it has shown so far this season, staged a remarkable comeback, overwhelming the Freshmen. Leekley tallied nine goals from the floor in this period...