Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...
...Berlin's anti-Semitism confined to police and mob activity. To all the other repressive anti-Semitic decrees issued since Adolf Hitler rose up to save the German people five years ago, was added a new decree whose simple purpose was to suffocate what is left of Jewish economic life. Main provisions: 1) Jewish concerns will be identified, probably with special signs on the place of business; 2) if one member of the board of a limited company is a Jew, the concern will be Jewish; 3) if one-fourth of the capital is owned by Jews, the company...
...disguised, Actor Philip Bourneuf talks his way brilliantly through the heroically talky role of Sir Arthur Chavender. No drunken skipper, but a tired, shilly-shallying Prime Minister, Sir Arthur is discovered, when On the Rocks begins, fiddling aimlessly about the interior of No. 10 Downing Street while an angry mob howls in the streets outside. Halfway through Act I, he receives a visit from a mysterious Lady in Grey (Estelle Winwood) who whisks him away to a sanatorium on the ground that his ineffectiveness is caused not by too much but by too little intellectual exercise...
...wife. But he had not murdered the child; that was accidental, he said. Skeegie "must have smothered" while he was quieting him with handkerchiefs. ¶Chief Hoover had Prisoner McCall spirited to the 19th floor of Miami's skyscraper jail to prevent his lynching by an angry Miami mob...
...have broken it up," said Mr. Thomas, and his charge is a serious one. Deplorable enough were the hoodlums who caused the riot and the War veterans who tried in vain to cancel Mr. Thomas's speaking permit, but when responsible police officers apparently acted in collusion with the mob, it may be assumed that Haguism had made an impression on Newark's public officials...