Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight last week Sheriff Louis Corbitt of Henry County, Ala. and Jailer J. N. Corbitt. his father, asleep in their first-floor bedrooms below the rooms at Abbeville that serve as county jail, were awakened by a great racket outside. Before they could get up to investigate, a mob of 50 armed farmers burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they broke into...
...reported as signs of rising non-union resentment against the strike. Another explanation of them was last week being explored in Anderson by three government agencies. Secretary Perkins dispatched an investigator after a U. A. W. vice president swore that G. M. superintendents and foremen had led the Anderson mob, were doing all they could to intimidate strikers, stir up violence against them...
...Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Black Legion makes no effort to mollify its message. Robert Lord's vigorous story investigates the Legion from three angles: its effect on Tay lor, its purpose of making money for a crew of cold-blooded organizers, and its own mob activities of night raids, arson, beatings and finally murder. When fear of the police has forced. Taylor to kill his best friend, the picture comes to a climax in a courtroom sequence which achieves a new high for judicial severity on the screen. Good shot: A radio dramatization of Taylor's arrest...
...affair, that is another matter. His statement to the press confined itself to dealing with the duties of the Governor in connection with the university's budget, and repeated specific charges of inefficiency against Dr. Frank. But nothing in his statement or in his speech before the mob of students cleared him of the implication of countenancing interference for purely personal reasons. Most of the members of the board of regents appointed by Governor La Follette voted against Dr. Frank. This was, of course, their right. But the fact that it has long been asserted that they were chosen because...
...from Spain were found by French customs guards to have gold pieces and even ingots concealed in loaves of bread. Thus it appeared that before fleeing from Madrid the Cabinet not only "democratized" rifles and pistols by handing them out openly but must also have flung to the Madrid mob a portion of the nation's metallic reserves...