A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police StrikeBeacon Press, 15/05/2005 - 264 páginas On September 9, 1919, an American nightmare came true. The entire Boston police force deserted their posts, leaving the city virtually defenseless. Women were raped on street corners, stores were looted, and pedestrians were beaten and robbed while crowds not only looked on but cheered. The police strike and the mayhem that followed made an inconspicuous governor, Calvin Coolidge, known throughout America, turning him into a national hero and, eventually, a president. It also created a monster: for two days, more than 700,000 residents of Boston's urban core were without police protection, and the mob ruled the streets. |
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... strike by the police force of a large American city all but impossible. Most police in that immediate postwar period were being carried along on the rising tide of unionization. The failure of the Boston strike saw the tide ebb for the ...
... strike by the police force of a large American city all but impossible. Most police in that immediate postwar period were being carried along on the rising tide of unionization. The failure of the Boston strike saw the tide ebb for the ...
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Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike Francis Russell. ago in school. For a few hours the lid had been off their stratified social structure, and the glimpse of what lay underneath was cruel, bestial, something they did not ...
Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike Francis Russell. ago in school. For a few hours the lid had been off their stratified social structure, and the glimpse of what lay underneath was cruel, bestial, something they did not ...
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Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike Francis Russell. been kept penned up in the judge advocate's office. His martial spirit later found a part outlet in the legislature when he sponsored a bill to create a Massachusetts ...
Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike Francis Russell. been kept penned up in the judge advocate's office. His martial spirit later found a part outlet in the legislature when he sponsored a bill to create a Massachusetts ...
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Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike Francis Russell. aggressive little girl who wore paper hair-ribbons, could write in Palmer Method without making blots, and got double promotions. As I look back now at our old fourth ...
Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike Francis Russell. aggressive little girl who wore paper hair-ribbons, could write in Palmer Method without making blots, and got double promotions. As I look back now at our old fourth ...
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Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike Francis Russell. proved the greatest of soldiers." On December 4 President Wilson sailed for France and the peace conference. Even before he landed, the police and firemen of Montreal had ...
Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike Francis Russell. proved the greatest of soldiers." On December 4 President Wilson sailed for France and the peace conference. Even before he landed, the police and firemen of Montreal had ...
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The Boston Police Department | 26 |
Overture to a Strike | 47 |
Summers End in Boston | 73 |
On a Tuesday in September | 97 |
The Ghost of Scollay Square | 236 |
Postscript in Baltimore | 242 |
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