Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will get the president of the Protestant Ministers' Union, the Catholic Bishop and the Jewish Rabbi, together with the President of the Chamber of Commerce, to join with you in leading a mob on the jail, I will turn the prisoner over to you-otherwise you will never get him, for I now have the jail packed with National Guardsmen." No mob came and the prisoner was legally executed about 90 days later...
...Alabama Attorney General's statement is representative of the best thought in Alabama," said the Montgomery Advertiser, editorially-and it is. The types of gentlemen that I suggested to the would-be mob leaders be included in the mob were just as outraged as any others over the crime committed, but they were not enemies of law and government. LEON SCHWARZ Mobile...
...face. He called for a mass meeting at Monroe of union men from Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Mayor Knaggs, who already had a large part of his aroused constituents under arms, appealed vociferously to Governor Murphy for militia and State police to protect his city from the expected mob. The Governor finally arranged that the meeting should be held at a State park three miles from Monroe, promised to have 350 guardsmen on hand to keep the union men out of the anti-union town and also see that the union's "right of free speech" was not abrogated...
...late Jean Harlow went to her last rest last week in a manner which has come to be regarded by the film colony as quiet, conventional good taste. With a reliable force of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company detectives on guard to see that there was no repetition of the mob scenes at Rudolph Valentino's obsequies in 1926, the body of Miss Harlow lay on a couch in the Tennyson Room of Pierce Brothers Mortuary, Hollywood's largest. A portrait of the author of In Memoriam and a volume of his verse were arranged, as usual, nearby...
...incantations, its own tests of conformity, its own methods of excommunication. In some lands the more independent spirits are physically coerced if the social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing to the mob coupled with the actual use of force have been successful, an approach to homogeneity has been attained. Here is one world, and woe to the man who does not conform to it in thought as well as in action. I hardly need give illustrations. We are all too familiar with them...