Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grim poilus in steel helmets replaced the police guard of the Palais Bourbon one day last week. Within, the Deputies tensed expectantly. Without, an ugly-minded crowd surged and shouted. Suddenly the motor car of Premier Poincaré approached at a speed which gave the mob of malcontents no option between scattering and suffering body bruises. They scattered, reassembled to hoot when he had passed safely into the Chamber. From M. Raymond Poincaré, the Wartime president of France (1913-20), the post-War Premier (1922-24) who sought to collect German reparations by occupying the Ruhr, only one policy...
...corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue du Helder, six more U. S.-freighted charabancs were held up by a crowd of well-dressed Frenchmen-seemingly by no means roughs. Several policemen appeared, attempted to interfere, were restrained by the inceasing ugliness of the mob, advised "Les Amér- icains" (about half of these being English and German and less than one-quarter U. S. citizens) to climb from their busses and scuttle off. The advice was taken. No injuries...
Most lamentably the hooligans were encouraged by a crowd of 2,000 which swelled to 10,000 as the paddling proceeded. Eventually the Governor was flung down to the mob, battered and kicked into insensibility...
...beginning with a handsome, athletic Greek aristocrat who, because of his broad shoulders was called Plato (427-347 B. C.). During populist chaos in Athens, Plato joined the "thinking games" of a homely old idler, Socrates. After the latter had been obliged to swallow hemlock, the pupil proposed exchanging mob government for a Republic ruled by its best intellects. He conceived absolute values for Good, Justice and similar abstractions, a realm of ideals of which ordinary life was but the dim shadow. Aristotle (384-322 B. C.), son of a physician at the court of King Amyntas in rugged Macedon...
...Arica, General Lassiter quietly wound up the affairs of the U. S.-chairmaned Chile-Peruvian plebiscitary commission (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923 et seq.). He was hissed and booed by a Chilean mob. The Chilean member of the Commission, Señor Augustin R. Edwards, refused to attend its last session. The Chilean police refused to open the Commission hall. General Lassiter made use of a nearby office. Finally he embarked with his staff aboard the U. S. battleship Galveston, prepared to sail...