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Word: mobbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dare we lift our eyes to Thee, for we are guilty, as a nation, of tolerating the practice of vile mob murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: How Dare We? | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Troilus, one of the local heroes, and accepted him in all the convention of courtly love. The stage is set for a blissful fade-out, when from the Greek lines comes the request from the girl's father that she be traded for some of the prisoners. At the mob's insistence, Cressida goes to the Greeks, swearing eternal fidelity to her lover Troilus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...breach with a fish collecting trip to Cuba this winter which was announced yesterday. Although failing to realize the true significance of the shark question, the Museum has nevertheless made a great stride in the right direction. Concentrating on small fry is their only mistake; it is the mob leaders, the tops of the racket, who must be eradicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAN EATING SHARK | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

Topping Oregon's labor problem is the current slump in the lumber industry. Only strong market is sawdust, used locally as fuel and now skyhigh at $12 a truckload. Another difficulty is the restless defiance which seems to pervade the whole Northwest. When a mob in Baker, Ore. recently ran a Beck organizer out of town with the help of local peace officers, Oregon's Governor Martin expressed public satisfaction. Few weeks ago in a Beck-Bridges dispute over some Seattle warehousemen, "the Tsar of Seattle Labor" threatened to close five warehouses if the Labor Board even held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Northwest Front | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Died. Captain James Vallely, 83, detective; in Houston, Tex. In Buffalo, on the night of Sept. 6, 1901, Vallely was called from his office to the Temple of Music where President McKinley had just been shot. He found a furious mob trying to get at Assassin Leon Czolgosz, who had been seized and put in a back room. Vallely ordered a patrol wagon sent to the building's back entrance. While the mob surged around it, Vallely sneaked Czolgosz out the front, took him to jail in the President's carriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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