Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every year, in the U. S. Educational world there is a riot, usually several riots. In New Haven's Hotel Taft, Wesleyan Freshmen and Sophomores clashed in the year's first riot. The Sophomores were holding their annual Fall banquet. No Freshmen were invited. Slighted, they sent a messenger to the Sophomores demanding admittance. The Sophomores removed the messenger's pants, sent him into the hotel lobby, sat down to their banquet. The Freshmen charged. Eggs destined for food became missiles. While some of the Freshmen fought, others stole and ate the Sophomores' food. Resignedly...
...nightly routine of the members of the Harvard Brown Derby Brigade who campaign for Smith was disturbed Tuesday night when four members of the college Democratic unit were suddenly precipitated into a street riot in Worcester, it was announced yesterday...
...other Harvard Smith men who were clustered about their automobile attempted a pacific non-partisan interference but where discouraged by promiscuous shoves and blows. In response to a belated riot call the police at length arrived and forthwith broke up the altercation. The Harvard men were asked to continue their activities further down the street. They accordingly walked three blocks under the protection of the law and found a more favorable location where the speakers resumed their campaigning undisturbed. The brown derby unit will continue its work throughout the week. F. A. Ballard 1L., G. W. Harrington...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was a child of six whose father had just gone to Congress from Minnesota. The Wright Brothers were making sensational flights, staying in the air as long as 1 hr., 31 min., 25 4/5 sec. But not until the next year was Louis Blériot to astound the world by flying across the English Channel. If young Lindbergh had a hero the year Taft campaigned it was doubtless President Roosevelt, with whose son, Quentin, he used to play in the White House grounds. Legend says that "Cheese" Lindbergh was one of the boyish gang that inspired...
...Irish, Hebrews and Italians, the negroes are extremely prolific. Already they reach the imposing total of 14,000,000 souls, or one-eighth of the total population of the United States. There is a great quarter in New York called Harlem, populated exclusively by colored people. A grave riot in this quarter last July was with difficulty suppressed after a night of bloody conflicts between the police and solid masses of blacks...