Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio disturbance was most violent at the M. A. Hanna Company's New Lafferty mine, where an encampment of 400 strikers, women and children, was established. The mine was rushed twice, successfully defended by company guards. Shortly thereafter, a mob of 2,000 stormed the jail. Seven more agitators were apprehended, twelve overcome by tear...
...abiding Norway mob resistance to policemen is all but unknown. Suddenly last week 1000 water front workers, on strike at Porsgrund, grew ugly, resisted 120 policemen, drove them back and back until they took refuge in a factory...
...Freedom & Bread!" Not without reason is Dr. Brüning called new Germany's "Iron Chancellor." He stood like iron against demands from his own Catholic Center Party that Dr. Curtius be "sacrificed"' to the mob, dropped from the Cabinet...
This is rather one-sided and hardly fair to Porter Smith. If it may be said that he went berserk, it must, in justification, be added that a mob of six or eight white men went berserk fighting him, first...
...Foundation, onetime (1915) president of the World's Peace Congress, vice president of the American Peace Society. When the World War came, he toured the country urging pacifism. In New Haven, Yale students hooted and jeered him. At the Baltimore Academy of Music in April 1917 he was almost mobbed by rioters who sang: ''Hang Dave Jordan on a Sour Apple Tree!" After the U. S. entered the War, however, he made no more speeches. And ten years after the Baltimore incident he received a letter from one Carter G. Osburn, who said he had led the Baltimore mob...