Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make it appear to be news, a quiet meeting of 300 persons, a few of them students at the University, was transformed into a raging mob of undergraduates, separated from their money by my eloquence and the lure of pretty girls...
...event which will take place at 8 o'clock inaugurates the year's program of the University's newest organization, the Independents. Three members of the group will address the mob and introduce the speakers, among them Michael P. Grace '40, president of the unit...
...Archbishop was bewildered, and no wonder. After Anschluss he had attempted to temporize with Nazis, had been given the backhanded accolade of "a reasonable man" by the pagan Nazi ideologist, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg. Suddenly, last fortnight, Cardinal Innitzer's palace was sacked by an obviously stage-managed Nazi mob. Last week the Cardinal was, to Viennese Nazis, a "black dog," a "traitor," a "political priest." To the rest of the Catholic world he was a hero. All this was because he had advised Ostmark Catholics to proclaim their faith, and had spoken up for religious marriages, religious education...
That night the Cardinal could hear the mob gathering again in St. Stephen's Square. He did not look out to see their fireworks or watch them brandish miniature gibbets. But he heard their shouts: "Innitzer to Dachau...
...every major crisis since the World War, radio has shouted provocative insults, challenges. All last week Berlin's official broadcasting voice screamed against "the Czech mass murderers," bombarded the rest of the world with atrocity stories, invented a radio language in which the Czech army was "the Hussite mob" or the "Red Horde," the Czech Republic a soviet, Czech mobilization "Moscow's war mongering," Premier Syrovy a "Communist." Not only does radio permit nation to shout at nation, but radio can also shout a neighbor down. Germany reported a mystery station which blanketed the European air with static...