Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just a year ago a shouting, prancing mob swarmed around the Democratic National Convention Hall in Philadelphia broadcasting these sentiments. The Party from Franklin Roosevelt down was engaging in a concerted move to sway Governor Herbert Lehman of New York from his intention of retiring, to run again for Governor in order to strengthen the Demo-cratic ticket in New York. The forced draft succeeded after Franklin Roosevelt had sent his old friend Herbert a personal letter urging him to make the race...
...shake hands with the little Princesses and grin in Queen Elizabeth's face were badly dressed women with haw-haw accents. . . . The Canadian and American girls would have loved to meet the Queen, but were too good-mannered, cool and dignified to fight their way through the mob. . . . More than once the gentlemen-in-waiting had to link hands to keep the Queen and her two little daughters from being jostled. . . . But no one jostled Queen Mary. . . . Majesty sits on her shoulders and the mob kept a respectful distance from her. . . . Full-bosomed and Junoesque, she moved across...
...into the fields below Arlington National Cemetery on the Virginia shore. Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books. Everywhere rose a babel of youthful voices, in childish versions of the accents of Maine and California, of Wisconsin and Texas. No connoisseur of mob scenes had ever seen such a sight; never before had the Boy Scouts of America held a National Jamboree...
...Chicago's municipal marriage license bureau set an all-time high on April 9, 1917, issuing 1,124 licenses. Last week saw that Wartime record tremble on Monday when 1,119 licenses were issued, tumble on Tuesday with 1,153, be trampled underfoot on Wednesday by a mob of 1,407 engaged couples who kept the overworked clerks on the job until 9 p. m. Next day another all-time Chicago marriage record was broken: not a marriage license was asked for all day. On the idlest previous day in the history of the bureau, Feb. 25, 1932, there...
White Bondage (Warner). Gordon Oliver and Jean Muir in a Southern sharecropper melodrama, complete with bloodhounds and lynch mob...