Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of the Turco-Russian War, the Post appeared to be stealing News despatches. The News printed a despatch concerning a riot in Servia and in the despatch were some Servian words. The Post printed it and the next day the News published a translation: "The McMullens' (publishers of the Post) will steal this sure." Within a couple of years Lawson was able to buy out the Post. In 1881 he founded The Morning News, later called The Chicago Record, later merged into the Record-Herald and finally sold to Hearst to become The Herald and Examiner...
Meanwhile, although a spirit of optimism runs riot in the world, the ultimate success of the reparations depends upon...
...international conference in Louvain, 200 Dutch Nationalists staged an anti-Belgium riot. They threw stones, hissed, unfolded Orange banners, cried "Long Live Wilhelmina! Down with Belgium...
...Carlos Cuadra Pasos, Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Government sent a force to Granada, Conservative stronghold, and seized primary ballots, consisting of 12,000 rifles, 6 machine guns, 50 Lewis machine guns, 240 cases of ammunition from the arsenal. This raid was followed by a riot among partisans of the two candidates. Several deaths resulted. A rising is feared by the authorities at Managua, capital city...
...witnesses agreed as to the details of the riot or even as to the nature of the missile. And the "skill" shown by the jury in sifting the evidence of course only made matters worse by introducing technicalities into a mere case of right and wrong...