Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing Mrs. Wilberforce, the contrast to the mob's coarseness, Katie Johnson is perfect. Offering unwanted cups of tea, forgetting umbrellas, or banging on a sink to make water flow, she frustrates the world's complexity by being innocent and gentle. Her solution to the loot problem is clear--"surely we must just send back the money...
...Irresponsible Forces." Birmingham police found out that the attack on Cole had been planned four days before in a filling station in Anniston, 60 miles from Birmingham. According to the plan, a mob of 150, led by an officer of the North Alabama Citizens' Council, was to have stormed the auditorium and kidnaped Cole. Only the six showed up. So serious was the police view of the affair that two were charged with assault with intent to commit murder, the four others on lesser counts of conspiracy...
Last week Hall angrily charged the Detroit press with burying news of the Rouse case (TIME, April 16), in which a part American Indian family was forced to move out of a Detroit neighborhood after a mob rioted around the house in the belief that they were Negroes. Commented Hall: "One paper ran it on page 3, one on page 16, and one on page 60. One story was only three paragraphs long. Anything like that happening in Montgomery would have made the lead story in all of those papers. Yet they ignore their own dirty wash. It makes...
...mob scene. Crushed together, reporters shouted their questions; photographers climbed on the bar, on tables, stools, railing, on each other's shoulders for height, and, with flashbulbs crunching underfoot, shouted orders at their victim: "Hey, Grace! Looka me!" "Stand up, Grace!" "Take it off, Grace [the hat]!" Other photographers, crowded out onto the deck, whammed their fists against the glass wall to catch her attention. The conference got so out of hand that a pressagent shouted: "Please! Please! Behave like ladies and gentlemen!" Another cried: "This is a press conference, not a riot! Unless you back up and give...
...Riesel began to sound like his old self again. Said he: "To the press, radio and TV: keep the heat on. To the decent men of labor: for God's sake stop looking the other way, stop apologizing and sidestepping. [Begin] an all-out war against the mob...