Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Walton declared that by its open defiance the Legislature evidently meant to "ride through blood up to the bridle. . . . But by virtue of the power vested in me as Governor of this state no mob shall rule Oklahoma as long as I am above ground. . . . Don't you think I would have a fair trial in that aggregation of dragons...
...outlaw Bushyagers?Winifred's tragic death and the unhappy chance that left Fremont a widower, with two children to support and the debts of his somewhat rascally-father-in-law to shoulder?the great Bushyager murder trial and its subsequent lynching-bee and Fremont's facing of the mob that came to call him to account for his protection of Bent Bushyager? his second marriage and the beginning of his fame as a newspaper- paragrapher?his final happiness. Vivid characters move across the spacious stage of the story: Fremont's great-hearted mother with her pipe and her commonsense; Raws...
...present Governor Walton is unquestionably in the right, and all indications are that he will remain in office, despite the ill will of the legislators. If he acts moderately afterwards, suppressing all mob acts, but also enforcing the law more efficiently throughout the state, the whole fight between Klan and Federal power may be ended. A ruling such as that recently passed in Michigan, forbidding the use of masks, would do much good. But for the solution of the problem, sanity and moderation are more essential than extraordinary measures of any sort...
Thanks State Attorney Lyon, of Virginia, for saving Negro from mob. July...
...revelation " establishing polygamy, but it is supposed that he had been secretly practicing it for some years. When the purport of the new revelation became generally known there was an uprising against the Mormons, and several of their leaders, including Smith, were arrested on a charge of treason. A mob, with the connivance of the militia guard, broke into the building where they were imprisoned and shot Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum dead...