Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Harvard University Corporation rescinded its permission for a student meeting at which Earl Browder was to speak. It did so with the explanation that his indictment for a passport violation had made him unfit for a Harvard platform. Three days later a mob of legionnaires and assorted thugs descended on a Detroit meeting-hall where Communist leader William Z. Foster was delivering an address. They picketed boisterously, and when the meeting ended and the crowd began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended...
...Banion mob was wild. In a cavalcade of seven cars, led by Hymie Weiss they went openly to Cicero's Hawthorne Hotel, Capone's headquarters, sprayed the windows with Thompson submachine guns. Capone crouched out of harm...
...hour, the little man darted out of the room, and with surprising agility succeeded in getting through the milling mob. For a minute, the Vagabond was afraid that he had lost him, but he soon regained the musty scent. Vag, following hot on the trail, just caught a glimpse of him, dashing into the protective spaciousness of Claverly. Vag broke into a mad run and flung himself into the hall just in time to see a tiny door at the end of the hall being quickly shut...
...said an anonymous gentleman of the press as he watched the Harvard band last Saturday, "what they need out there is a woman." The Crimson agrees. The music was fine, but still the between-the-halves exhibition sagged in the wrong spots. The band acted like a Paris mob storming the Bastille, while the cheer-leaders gave a fair imitation of the English cabinet advocating action...
...Korean was rescued from the mob by quick work of police and marines, rushed off to Naval Landing Headquarters...