Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Youngstown continued in a state of siege, and when a Saturday crowd of women strike sympathizers started heckling Sheriff Ralph Elser's police cordon at the Republic Steel plant, a riot started in which police tear gas was answered by birdshot and bullets from thousands of unionists. Two men were killed, 25 persons wounded, including Mary Heaton Vorse, liberal writer...
...start of the Memorial Day riot outside Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant, a Paramount newsreel cameraman named Orlando Lippert had his truck parked about 50 ft. from the centre of the police line. Cameraman Lippert was the only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
...riot in Square, Radcliffe; Dean issues general Warning...
...Southampton, England, last week arrived the first shipment of Basque refugees, 4,000 children on the steamer Habana, high-water mark in one of the greatest mass evacuations of children in history. Many of them carried their Sunday clothes in little bundles. They staged a healthy, yowling child-riot when forcibly washed, given haircuts. Next day in a tent city in which they had been installed the Basque children suddenly lost all bravado. A squadron of British planes on practice flight hammered overhead. Screaming in terror, the Basque children stampeded for their tents, holes in the ground, anywhere they could...
...Tuesday, May 18, the CRIMSON printed an account of the recent riot here as interpreted in the London Daily Express. The following translation of an article written in Flemish from the Antwerp Handlesblad Illustrates how the story was further improved by a trip across the Channel...