Word: volleyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open the plant, was on the long distance telephone urging the police and pickets not to resort to violence. The police chief gave the pickets two minutes to get out and marched back to his troops. The two minutes was stretched to two hours before the police fired a volley of tear gas shells. This had no effect except that the pickets brandished clubs in defiance. In good order the police and deputies then marched up six abreast, delivered a well-aimed volley of vomiting gas grenades before which the pickets fled...
...crowd of spectators cheered lustily. The non-strikers in their cars rattled toward the mill. The pickets rallied to shower them with rocks, but another volley of grenades put them finally to rout, sent them fleeing down the road and across an orchard, many of them abandoning their cars. Members of the crowd joined in the chase and beat up several pickets whom they caught. Several others were rescued and released by the well-organized deputies. Taken into "protective custody" was Fred Mayberry, leader of the pickets who was seated in the car of the police chief...
...cool night of Sept. 14 that year Headmaster Speer was alone in his study reading, when someone crept up to the window, fired a murderous volley of buck shot into him, disappeared. Self-possessed Dean Elder became one of the most interesting to press and public of the 63 witnesses who testified at the Speer in quest. Mysterious it was too that Mr. Speer's two big dogs had not barked, as they presumably would have if an un known intruder had made his way through the school's heavily wooded grounds. Because the villain of The Public...
...screamed, and when it was withdrawn this time he was ready to confess. He was with Townes, he sobbed, when Townes poked a shotgun through the grocery window, fired into the grocer's back. When his confession was delivered in sufficient detail, the lynchers fell back and a volley of bullets crashed into Bootjack McDaniels, 1937's lynching victim...
...wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section went to Treece, wrecked the C. I. O. headquarters there, another went on to Galena, marched up Main Street. As they came abreast of the C. I. O. headquarters, a volley of shots broke their ranks. When the sheriff got there he found nine Tri-Staters writhing in the street, C. I. O. headquarters deserted, no one to charge with the shooting...