Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night's abortive riot of the Freshmen in the Yard was a completely dismal failure, and seems to be a good example of the degeneracy which has set in among the younger generation. In past years the clarion call of "Rheinhardt" was enough to set the manly, virile blood of our predecessors in motion, and spur all good Harvard men into action. But times have changed, and past generations of men are being supplanted by a third rate lot of "wee cowering timorous beasties...
Harry Bennett, a wiry, dynamic ex-sailor and pugilist, was last in the news when a flying brick felled him during the riot of unemployed outside Ford's River Rouge plant five years ago (TIME. March 14, 1932). That he may soon make news again appeared last week when militant United Automobile Workers, who have been roaring FORD NEXT! throughout their General Motors and Chrysler imbroglios, staged the first Ford sit-down in an assembly plant at Kansas City. Grievance was a regular seasonal layoff of some 300 workers in which unionists claimed that long-employed union men were...
...right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort. When the cheering marchers got there, the chief of police and a committee of plug-uglies were waiting for them. In the riot Dave was shot, Allen clubbed. Then the meeting house was burned down. When Allen got out of jail he found his paper had been wrecked. Most of his intimidated followers left him. Dave died of his wound. Allen somehow got his paper started again, closed the ranks, marched...
...Orbeta, insular police chief, promptly canceled it. The Nationalists announced they would parade anyhow. The paraders came in contact with police near Pila Hospital in the heart of Ponce. A shot (fired by a Nationalist, according to police) broke the Sunday afternoon calm. The police opened fire with riot and submachine guns, as well as tear gas. When the short battle ended, several thousand onlookers were scrambling to safety, 50 wounded writhed on the pavement, and ten, including one policeman, lay still in death...
...police authorities ruled that entry to the Olympia would be by card only, and that evening a careful police cordon verified that everyone who entered the theatre was, actually a Social Party member, excluding by this means people who might slip inside to provoke a typical Paris theatre political riot...