Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most graphic picture of the mob attack, which accounted for the muzzling of between 50 and 60 Brazilian papers opposed to the revolution, was given by the United Press's Brazil Manager C. Arthur Powell in Editor & Publisher of last fortnight. Long trained as correspondent for the Associated Press in Havana until six months ago, sandy-haired Reporter Powell earned from admiring Cubans the name Car a Dura (Hard Face), is not prone to exaggerate: Worst damage ("several million dollars") suffered by the Rio newspaper plants was inflicted upon A Noite in its new 24-story building, highest in South...
Reporter Powell reported that the mob of hundreds, wearing red hatbands and armed with table-legs and other handy cudgels, "gained admittance when a two-ton truck backed up ... and forced the doors. Everything was seized and destroyed, from lead pencils to printing presses. . . . The mob stormed the building and threw furnishings into the street [and burned them], smashed machinery and turned on water taps on several floors. The offices of Geraldo Rocha, proprietor of A Noite and one of the richest industrialists of Brazil, were entered and the furnishings wrecked. Rocha was not there at the time. Ismael Maia...
...When the mob began indiscriminately to invade rented offices in the building, Reporter Powell's assistant Lester Ziffren ran to the U. S. consulate on another floor, returned with a U. S. flag which he draped over the United Press doorway. ". . . The mob leaders, not wishing to cause a conflict with the U. S., stood by and ordered everything packed up lest it be damaged in the fire and flood which followed ... all we lost . . . was a fountain pen which was picked up by someone and a photograph of Julio Prestes [onetime] president-elect of Brazil [which was confiscated...
...Roar-China! liberal-minded spectators should find little direct Soviet proselytizing to annoy them. Any spectator will probably be moved by the scenic grandeur, the bold theatrics of the production. To Director Herbert Biberman goes praise for capable direction, for assembling and managing his mob of 67 Chinese, 15 Occidentals. And Lee Simonson's setting which uses real water, real boats, almost a real battleship, is noteworthy in itself...
...great coffee city of Sao Paulo, capital of that state, more newspapers were sacked and a "Bastille" fell. In this building, the dread Cambucy prison, the mob found what were said to be "man whips" and "wooden instruments of torture." Soon mobsters ignited the infamous prison (after setting free all prisoners), cheered while it burned...