Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against Communist insurrection. When he first took over, the police were so shoddy that Lawyer Scelba exclaimed: "If I were Communist, I'd start a revolution tomorrow." The Reds tried force eventually, but by then Scelba had 200,000 well-trained men (including the jeep-riding Reparto Celere riot squads) who squelched the troublemakers with some shooting and 7,000 arrests. His hardfisted record earned him the nickname "Iron Sicilian." Premiership. Out of office for five months after De Gasperi's last Cabinet, Scelba emerged as a prospect for Premier in early 1954. To a reporter who came...
...Boys Were Looking. Because of his appearance, White was peculiarly equipped to fight racial segregation. Never in his lifetime was he spotted by a stranger as a Negro. After he joined the NAACP in 1918, he became a courageous investigator of lynchings and mob violence. Once, during a race riot in Chicago, White was shot at by a Negro who thought he was white...
After the gruesome race riot at Elaine, Ark. in 1919, when more than 200 Negroes and three white men were killed, White made his usual trip south. He interviewed Charles H. Brough, the unsuspecting governor of Arkansas, and in the midst of his on-the-spot investigation, he learned that a mob had been tipped off and was looking for him. White prudently caught the first train for Memphis, although the conductor urged him to stay and see the fun. "There's a damned yellow nigger down here passing for white," he said, "and the boys are going...
...Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
...always thinking automatically of what question I can ask in case a joke falls flat. But even when jokes go over, I've got to be careful that Henry Morgan and I don't get kidding and forget about the game. We've had the riot act read to us, let's face it. We've gotten the riot act for horsing up the show too much...