Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shielded reporters. In steel helmets, with gas-masks strapped to their shoulders, strikers paraded past the mill, two by two. The Passaic Chamber of Commerce asked Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey to "mediate" the strike. An inventor, one Edward Moore, offered Mayor McGuire of Passaic his "centrifugal riot gun, which shoots 4,000 shots a minute and is effective at a mile and a half." The offer was not accepted. The police did not try to stop the grey-faced marchers on Dayton Street. No women were clubbed...
...fourth day of the riot (the end of the sixth week of the strike) warrants were sworn out for Chief Zober and for two patrolmen. The warrants had nothing directly to do with the riot. A War veteran charged that Zober had struck him repeatedly with a club when the police raided a strike meeting three weeks ago. The two patrolmen were charged with beating, kicking, prostrating a storekeeper and his wife in their store two weeks ago. A justice of the peace issued warrants of arrest. The police refused to serve them and a constable from a neighboring town...
Dean of Freshmen Walden put the whole class on probation for following boisterous members who had led the riot to keep up "an old tradition...
...recent Freshman riot at the Yale Commons had a counterpart in the "Great Rebellion of 1776" at the University which had its inception in the Harvard Commons of that...
Needless to say there is no pretense to seriousness. Mr. Dix, as Yale quarterback Bill Dexter, runs riot in the Bowl, then in the exclusive (sic) Prado Night Club, gets jailed, escapes, and elopes to avoid capture. That in brief is the plot, but it is the small bits of acting and the rather subtle humor that makes this movie worthwhile and really entertaining...