Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mob scene in the best strike traditions was put on, however at M.I.T. last night in which violence and bloodshed played a real part. On the spot observers declared that many were arrested and more received head and other injuries from forays with police...
...assigned counsel to defend them, set a date for trial by jury. Everything was according to law. But when they stepped out of a side door of the courthouse, they found themselves face to face with what so often handles cases like theirs in the South. An angry mob surged forward, took them from the custody of their guardians without a struggle, threw them into a school...
Followed by 40 automobiles, the bus sped down the highway toward Duck Hill. Two miles from the scene of last December's murder, 500 country folk, including women and children, waited expectantly in a patch of pinewood. When the motorcade from Winona arrived, the mob closed in to watch as the terrified Negroes were dragged from the bus. People in the back rows could hear heavy chains clink as the two blackamoors were made fast to trees...
...bloom and freshness, and it is still a bit chilly to stage a first-class riot, it may be safely said that the strength-sapping improvements of our modern mechanized civilization have rendered the Class of 1940 effete and sissified. Radcliffe, now freed from the menace of an annual mob invasion, has become contemptuous of the Harvard man's ability to set out on masse for Garden Street and show that he is capable of accomplishing great things...
...trouble that they did not expect. For Sunday they had scheduled a mass meeting at small Picher, Okla. in the midst of a rich lead & zinc region to talk tough miners into deserting the independent Tri-State Metal, Mine & Smelter Workers' Union. Before the meeting could assemble a mob of 4,000 Tri-Staters marched in armed with pick handles, clouted every C. I. O. man they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section went to Treece, wrecked the C. I. O. headquarters...