Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Violent Children. The children of the strikers thoroughly enjoy the industrial situation: they get sufficient free food, they scurry to an occasional riot, they join but do not understand the Young Pioneers of America (Communist organization), they frolic at the game of "Strikers and Scabs" in the Victory Playground. This gentle pastime requires baseball bats, assorted clubs, rocks, tin cans, etc. The Strikers, with a tough 13-year-old in the role of "Hero" Albert Weisbord exhorting them to be brave, meet the Scabs or Cossacks (representing the police) in realistic Armageddon. The Strikers are always supposed...
...both this prosperity and the maddening promise of the never divided surplus, U. S. Steel common stock reached its highest recorded price last week-$144.50 a share. Nor was there an immediate reaction when George Fisher Baker, highly potent director of the corporation said last week: "I do riot take any stock in the rumors that the shares of the Steel Corporation will be split and put on a $4 or $5 basis." Ryan. Governors of an institution the joint resources of which total one billion dollars, the Board of Directors of the National City Bank of New York, last...
...sufficient epidemic blemishes in the form of freshman romanticists of the violent sort. For defying the gentle deities of tradition, certain underclassmen, perhaps influenced by the British Labor Strike, perhaps by mere spring fever and a taste for novelty, yesterday made of an old and excellent university tradition a riot worthy of Donald Ogden Stewart's conception of Harvard and little more...
...textile strike which for 12 weeks had been enlivening the annals of New Jersey with accounts of strikers dispersed with clubs, tear bombs, riot acts and jail sentences, spent its 13th week in a futile research for a peace settlement...
...much press-agented, film version of "Brown of Harvard" has finally been released for the screen, the picture having been exhibited at the Harvard Union. The production of this play in April, 1907, was the occasion of a notorious riot at the opening performance at the majestic Theatre in Boston. The film will be shown this week at Loew's State Theatre in the Hub City, and the Harvard CRIMSON expresses a fear that, judging by the reception it received at the hands of the large crowd of undergraduates who witnessed the picture at the Union, a repetition...