Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government was obliged to admit in an official communique last week that the conduct of two platoons of the second battalion of the 18th Royal Garswal Rifles at Peshawar recently was "unsatisfactory"-that is, these Hindu troops disobeyed their British commander's order to fire on a Hindu mob. With unrest seething hotter and hotter all over India it was no mean proof of Baron Irwin's iron nerve and fitness for the post of Viceroy that the saintnapping was accomplished with such masterly finesse...
...Judiciary lies down on the job and follows the mob along the lines of least resistance, our form of government is doomed. . . . We have reached a critical stage, if not a real crisis, in our history. . . . Do you have any idea that the Supreme Court as now constituted would have the moral courage to go into this question...
...South Carolina. Allen Green, black and 50, was suspected of raping an 18-year-old white woman, was held in the Oconee County jail at Walhalla. At midnight a masked mob of several hundred men and boys broke into the jail. Sheriff John Thomas tried to fight them off, to protect his prisoner. He was bashed over the head, had his skull fractured. The lynchers whisked Green three miles out of town by motor, tied him to a tree, tore his body to shreds with bullets...
...Florida John Hodaz, white and 40, suspected of dynamiting the Plant City home of one J. L. Waller with whom he had been on bad terms, was evilly spirited away by a masked mob from the hands of deputy sheriff Tobe Robinson. Later a woodcutter found his bullet-punctured body suspended from a tree...
...protest against British firing on a mob at Peshawar, a funeral procession of 60 coffins was staged last week, but when British police poked the corpses about half of them leaped from their coffins, ran. Magnificent was the restraint of police at Bombay, where thousands of St. Gandhi's sympathizers were allowed to parade past the great stone arch called "The Gateway of India," past the Royal Yacht Club, past the Taj Mahal Hotel...