Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mob became frantically moved, however, caution returned to Bavaria's Mussolini. Perhaps he recalled spending a year in jail after his attempted 1923 Putsch. Changing tune, he concluded: "Ours is a revolutionary party but what we propose to capture is the German soul! We do not need to make a Putsch to gain control of the government. That is not necessary! Control will come to us in a legal manner. That, my friends, is what our enemies fear...
Said Charles Gates Dawes, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, master of mob-psychology, speechmaking last week at a dinner given by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool: "For some unexplainable reason, when people listen through the radio to speeches of demagogs their instincts are not aroused in the same way as when they are in a crowd...
...life. Like locusts the workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
Within ten minutes the formal resignation was in General Uriburu's khaki pocket. Within 30 minutes Argentina's "Pink House" was overrun by a merry mob. Portraits of Dr. Irigoyen were hurled from the windows, burned. Two busts of him were dragged forth, one decapitated, the other paraded through the streets in a coffin with the placard: "He's finished...
Down and into Dallas's Love field, busiest airport of the southwest, slipped Coste's red sesquiplane "Point d'lnterrogation" last week at the end of a 1,700-mi. flight from New York. The mob of 20,000 rushed the lines of police and national guardsmen with as much mad enthusiasm as though the plane had flown direct from Paris. At length a wedge of guards forced a lane to the Southern Air Transport administration building where Mayor J. Waddy Tate and Attorney Cullen F. Thomas (for Governor Moody) offered the visitors the freedom of Dallas...