Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office into the yelling mob strolled towering Warden Davis. Above the heads of the rioting convicts his face was grey and grim. They could see he was unarmed, but they also saw he was unafraid. As he shouldered his way forward the yard fell quiet. The convicts loosened their grip on the guards' throats. Quietly, clearly spoke Warden Davis: "You men get back to your cells...
...demanded that the Government withdraw it. Up jumped Senator Cueva Garcia to remind the Senators that if the monopoly were cancelled, Ecuador would have to repay Kreuger & Toll's $2,000,000 loan. That might be awkward. A melee followed. Somebody got a message to Garcia that a mob was waiting for him outside. Colleagues spirited him away to safety. The monopoly was withdrawn...
...first thing to throw a rock at, when you have made your point in a Latin American political upheaval, is the opposition's newspaper. Accordingly, fiery Senator Maldonado led a mob of 3,000 yowling sympathizers to the offices of El Commercio. After stoning the building, he led his followers to the home of Luis Felipe Borja, resident representative of the match company. Here a body of cavalry interfered. In the clash five citizens were killed, 50 wounded. After that things simmered down...
...police brought in Oliver and wrung a confession from him, the first of four lynching attempts occurred. Escaping the mob at Ypsilanti, the three were taken to the Ann Arbor jail, where a fresh mob gathered, tore at the prisoners' clothes, clawed their faces, cried for their blood. Reinforced by carloads of men from Ypsilanti, the crowd surged around the insecure jail, shouting: ''Lynch them! Burn them!" The three cowering men were rushed into automobiles and whisked to the court house where Judge George W. Sample was waiting. Said Judge Sample: "I feel like...
...sampans from house to house trying to rescue trapped families, but scores died. There was danger of pestilence. Foreign correspondents were less interested in the millions of homeless and thousands of dead than in two U. S. citizens, Mrs. Webb and a Mrs. Fielding, who were attacked by a mob of hysterical coolies in Hankow's former German concession, had their dresses torn off, were badly frightened...