Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond the motion before it, to rule on Judge Lemley's original decision. "The way the case stands," said Marshall, "there must be a definitive decision, so that in Arkansas there will be no doubt that the orders of the court cannot be interfered with ... by obstructionists and mob action . . ." Finally, just before he sat down, Thurgood Marshall's voice broke. "When a bank is robbed you don't close the bank," he cried. "You put the bank robbers in jail...
...colonnaded capitol in Little Rock with the air of a man who was sure that things were going his way. He had called the legislators into special session to pass a set of carefully lawyered bills designed to grant him sweeping new powers-to close down schools threatened by mob violence or by federal troops sent to secure integration, to transfer state funds from any closed school to any new segregated private schools, to provide, a general kickoff appropriation of $100,000-and he knew the legislators were with him. Governor Faubus, a darkly handsome and composed man when enjoying...
Cocktails for Control. Such sport was this that next day began with a mob of 1,500 burning and looting a bus terminal, beating up drivers and running off with another 30 buses. When the police did not interfere, they stormed other terminals with Molotov cocktails. Mexico City transport was in chaos. People jammed the old streetcars, riding atop the roofs, crowded into trucks at 1? per ride. In vain Mexico City's bus drivers appealed to the students to stop. Finally, the 13 transport unions took full-page ads saying what all knew: "These young delinquents have proclaimed...
...aspects of this complex problem." Even that failed to pacify the students. They sallied out, joined a leftist faction in a street battle for control of the labor union at Pemex, the national petroleum monopoly. The students helped attack Pemex headquarters, retreated when hard-pressed police fired on the mob...
...several days before the government of Prime Minister Lord North ordered soldiers to fire on the mob. The "Gordon Riots'' were a part of the process that destroyed the political system of George III and opened the way to 19th century democracy-although Author Hibbert himself admits that to this day nobody has completely explained the why and wherefore of "the most savage riots in English history...