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...grounds to see the executions," reported the Reds' New China News Agency. "All were highly indignant, and cursed these counter-revolutionaries." Peking's People's Daily added that the crowds "gritted their teeth in hatred . . . Cheers and applause were heard as these people were killed." A mob surrounded a van transporting one group of prisoners, and would have torn them to pieces had not a well-armed guard intervened. After executions, onlookers kicked the bodies and beat them with sticks...
...Chicago, tough Tony Accardo, reigning boss of the old Capone mob, bought himself a magnificent 22-room mansion (original cost: $500,000), in the swank suburb of River Forest, hired 20 decorators to fix up the place...
Student reaction was immediate and intense. Two thousand Elis marched in a torchlight parade to the home of President A. Whitney Griswold, who showed little sympathy for the demonstration. He termed it "an organized ring-led mob" and denounced Derby Day as an "organized debauch...
Convertibles or Tractors? Not one of the arrested strikers had been found in possession of firearms, not one shot had been fired by the mob. No one had shouted: "Down with Franco!" The strike had been spread by 12,000 enlaces (literally: links), low-echelon labor leaders in the Falange-controlled unions, and the strikers had been drawn from all classes of people: Catholic youth, former Red labor organizers, shopkeepers and shoeshiners. Their common grievance: since 1926, living costs had risen twice as fast as wages...
...porch: "The question of Derby Day is a midget [compared with Yale's other concerns] ... I love a riot ... I loved them when I was an undergraduate ... I can yield to no one the record of smashed light bulbs . . . But I will not discuss university policy with a mob...