Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendly Hedge. Also swinging through California, Campaigner Estes Kefauver faced the same kind of questions and left behind an entirely different impression. Calling the Emmett Till case in Mississippi "a horrible murder," he said he favored a federal anti-mob statute. In a friendly but carefully hedged statement he indicated that he would support Powell's proposal if it became necessary, and if it could be worded to protect the purposes of the school-aid bill. If elected President, he said, he would 1) appoint a commission of white and Negro educational leaders in the South to confer...
...their 1950 race won the governor the undying hatred of many party-first Democrats in Ohio. To most Democrats who ask for a helping hand, the governor has a stock answer: "I don't have time." He found time, however, to push his way through a Columbus mob in 1952, and give G.O.P. Candidate Dwight Eisenhower a ringing official welcome to Ohio...
...women stonily turned their backs as his car swept by. A crowd was waiting for him at the war memorial in the city's center. At sight of the Premier, it broke into an angry roar. "Mollet to the lamppost!" rose the shout, and the crowd became a mob...
That tears it. Newscasters deplore his decision; newspapers revile it. A storm of telegrams protests his heartlessness. A mob gathers threateningly outside his house. His brother turns against him, his wife leaves home. Then the police arrive with his son's bloody T shirt...
...many students who are now speaking out against mob rule may well bring about Miss Lucy's reinstatement after the storm has passed. But regardless of future actions, proponents of gradual integration should not be dismayed by the tempest at Tuscaloosa: the disgraceful treatment of Miss Lucy should serve as a lesson in the fine art of integration...