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Suddenly the newspapers told of the acquittal of three young men, reactionary Nationalists, who had been on trial since February for killing a man and a child, during a brawl between Nationalists and Social Democrats in the Province of Bergenland. The guilt of the three young Nationalists had seemed a moral certainty; but Bergenland is so strongly Nationalist that many feared their conviction might cause riots there. When it was announced last week that the youths had been acquitted, Bergenland was quiet, smug; but Vienna, where Communists and Social Democrats vastly outnumber Nationalists, burst into demonstrations of irritation which verged...
...Joliet, Ill., a priest driving an automobile asked permission to pass through the State prison grounds "for a short cut." He was seized and, after a violent brawl, unfrocked, and seen to be no priest. The automobile contained "a can of soup" (nitro-glycerin), loaded pistol, cartridge belt, two suits of clothes, a blue-print of the prison...
...head or abdomen for death, but merely in the arm or leg for legitimate profit. Eugene Fenmore (James Rennie), head of a high-principled gang plans his "jobs" in evening clothes, with the nicety of the inspired artist. While police are decoyed to the scene of a set-up brawl next door, his men rifle Goldberg's jewelry store in full sight of a pop-eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester Morris), first assistant safecracker, proved disobedient and plugged the doubly unfortunate Goldberg in the forbidden parts. For this treacherous, unwarranted homicide, Director...
Next day, in protest against the killing of two Socialists by Fascists in a tavern brawl near Loipersbach, the well and widely organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting 15 minutes. From 11:00 a. m. to 11:15 a. m. flower girls would not sell flowers, tram drivers would not drive their trams, many bank clerks banged shut their windows, and all telegraphs, telephones and radios were silent. Only taxicab drivers, irrepressible, defied the general strike order and buzzed back and forth with their fares...
...Denver harbors more than a ghost of the rip-roaring West that was. The vocabulary has altered little. The barroom brawls that once fascinated a robust populace are not extinct. They have merely been transferred, noise, color and violence intact, to the newspapers. How that transfer came about, and how the latest, loudest, most violent brawl of all is progressing, is a story that begins in a small Chicago printshop at the time of the World's Fair...