Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Mob. While the generals and prelates of Brazil thus played their roles with dignity, Rio de Janeiro mobs sacked and burned the offices of pro-Washington Luis newspapers (i. e. nearly all the newspapers in the capital), caused a property loss...
...Their "Al" Smith was 400 mi. north, and before he became President would be 800 mi. away in Rio de Janeiro. But fortunately he had left behind a young man, one Osvaldo Aranha as acting president of the state. To his office in Porto Alegre rushed the joy-mad mob, carried him with roars of triumph to the Grande Hotel, put him on a balcony. Three times the young man tried but failed to speak, so full was his heart...
General Fragoso appeared in a trice, escorted President and Cardinal through a mob which began to jeer. "SILENCE! RESPECT!" roared General Fragoso. Respectfully silence came. The deposed President was conducted to the fortress of Copacabana. He did not resign last week, but his presidential term expires Nov. 15 in any case...
Lynching Race With Three Mob Murders"; "College Girls Stoned Out of Residence on Campus"; "White Youths Held for Attack; No Mobs." Serving some of the no Negro papers is the Associated Negro Press which sends out not wired stories but weekly letters from its Chicago offices. Some of the papers also receive the Colored News Service. Also there is a National Negro Press Association, about 30 years old, which confines its activities mostly to discussion of policy and racial problems at its annual convention...
...Mobbing together, they attacked the bad baboon's barricade. After two days of siege, George and the female grew hungry, tried to get out. The monkey mob mauled them, chased them back. Then in the shadow of his hiding place, George killed his stolen female, ignominiously. Monkey moralists were satisfied. The wife-stealer was allowed to come out unharmed. The king, still uninterested, sat by, blinked, ate a peanut...