Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the coal mine town of Bradford, Ala., last week came a unique tale of lynching. According to Special Officer F. L. Brittain of the Alabama By-Products Corp., which runs Bradford's mines, a mob of "several thousand Negroes" gathered outside a beer parlor called the "Bloody Bucket," accused two white men of assaulting a Negro woman in a wood near the "Bloody Bucket," threatened to lynch them...
...48th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan, one Guillermo Collins expectorated on the trousers of one John Ballach. Apologizing, Collins bent over to wipe it off. When Collins straightened up, Ballach noticed his money was gone from his pocket. Collins started to run, pursued by Ballach and an ever-growing mob. Suddenly, at 49th Street, a pistol shot cracked out, Collins stopped. Patrolman William E. Kelly, member of the U. S. 1936 Olympic water polo team, ran up, rescued him from the mob, made his first arrest since joining the force Sept...
...strongest factors in American politics. It is the most powerful of the militantly military influences on contemporary American opinion. Americans might wish not to have it; yet Americans can thank their lucky stars that they have it, can be grateful that the United States' most highly organized mob is comprised of men who have both already fought in action and who are approaching the age of ineligibility. Americans can be thankful that the Fascist marching spirit hasn't swept her young men off their feet...
...toned down were some of the phrases about Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke the strike in Ohio. Roared Labor Lion Lewis: "The steel puppet, Davey, is still Governor of Ohio, but not for long. I think, not for long! ... No tin hat brigade of goosestepping vigilantes or bible-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation-paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of Labor...
...years of a 25-year sentence for robbery; in Sacramento, Calif. Attempting, in 1926, to escape from the San Quentin Prison Hospital, Convict Booth fell, broke both legs. During his convalescence he started writing, subsequently turned out a novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif., must remain away from centres of population, must write no crime stories...