Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barely had the walkout begun last week than it turned violent. As nonstrikers tried to drive through the picket lines, the strikers threw themselves on the cars. The thin line of Long Island police, under orders not to carry nightsticks, was repeatedly overwhelmed. Once, as a mob of pickets rushed to an entrance to head off workers, a cop stood aside. "What the hell was I going to do?" he muttered. "I was outnumbered...
...first six days of rioting at the gates, 139 were arrested, more than 30 injured. At week's end Republic brought its cameras to the New York State Supreme Court, for 15 minutes showed scenes of mob violence by strikers, won a temporary injunction against mass picketing. Meanwhile, fighter plane production was completely stopped...
Seattle, the closest U.S. port to China, has always had a more friendly understanding of its transpacific neighbor than most West Coast communities. As long ago as 1886, when anti-Chinese riots convulsed the West, a small band of Seattle citizens stood off a mob and prevented the forcible deportation of 350 Chinese nationals. Seattle was the only Pacific Coast city where such violence was successfully halted. In 1916 the late Julean Arnold, a lifelong friend of China and onetime commercial attache in the U.S. embassy in Peking, visited Seattle and asked if there was any interest among the city...
FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Feb. 24--Mass picketing and violence were outlawed yesterday in the million-dollar-a-day Republic Aviation Corp. strike at Farmingdale, N.Y.--but not in time to prevent a new mob brawl...
...Tuscaloosa, from offices less than two miles from the University of Alabama, Editor Buford Boone of the News (circ. 15,681) topped off thorough coverage of the Lucy story with a hard-hitting editorial: "The university administration and trustees have knuckled under to the pressures and desires of a mob . . . We have a breakdown of law and order and abject surrender to what is expedient ..." The Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser (circ. 60,144), which sees no integration possible in the Deep South in the foreseeable future, nonetheless has given full coverage to the Negro boycott of Montgomery buses (TIME...