Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago performance of Scarlet Sister Mary a member of the mob scene was John Drew ("Jacky") Colt, 17, son of the play's leading actress, Ethel Barrymore, nephew of Actors John and Lionel Barrymore, grandnephew of famed John Drew. Stagestruck, he had quit school. Following a three-generation tradition in the Barrymore family regarding debuts, he carried onto the stage a red apple sent by his Uncle John...
...means of averting a like decline in modern instruction that step should be taken. But every effort ought to be made to prevent the monetary reward of a professor from hinging on his ability to capture popular attention, or from being subject to the caprice of the mob. Mr. Loree's proposal is a far cry from the day when the Athenian youths flocked to the gratuitous discourses of Socrates...
Last month in her little schoolhouse outside Maryville, Mo., Schoolma'am Velma Colter, 20, was raped, murdered. To the crime Raymond Gunn, Negro, confessed. Last week he was being taken from the Maryville jail to the courthouse to stand trial when a mob snatched him out of the hands of Sheriff Havre English, noisily marched him out of town toward the rural schoolhouse. Hundreds followed the procession, heard Gunn beg for mercy...
...bullets from a policeman's machine-gun. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more complete than Author Burnett saw him? a gangster of Greek tragedy, destroyed by the fates within him. The only miscast character is Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as a tough Italian thug. Best shot: Caesar's mob raiding a cabaret protected by a rival gang...
Also in Chicago last week, in Federal court, Frank Nitti, Al Capone's cousin and reputedly the man who arranges Capone-killings, pleaded guilty to charges of evading payment of $158,823 income taxes, his share of the Capone "mob's" profits for the years 1925-27. With complete candor he explained that the money had been come by through all sorts of racketeering. He was pained and surprised that the Government taxed such incomes. Said he: "I talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than...