Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominee for the Supreme Court, McGrady enhanced his reputation by going in 1929 to Elizabethton, Tenn. to investigate for the A. F. of L. a strike of rayon workers, who were working 56 hours a week at 16? to 18? an hour. At 2 a. m. one morning a mob of truculent citizens routed him out of his hotel room and, with pistols in his ribs, drove him to Bristol, Va. By 8 a. m. he had hired a car, started back to Elizabethton where he and the union committee, with their wives and children, settled down in a shack...
Near Colfax last fortnight an L. & A. freight was wrecked, five cars derailed. Outside Alexandria a shower of bullets spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...
...week left many a U. S. news publisher wondering if writing and printing an editorial page was worth the trouble. All through the land, voters thumpingly disregarded the editorial politics of an estimated 80% of the nation's daily Press (TIME, Nov. 2). In Chicago an election night mob took direct action against the rabidly anti-Roosevelt Tribune by burning a truckload of its "bulldog" edition, egging its building, smashing plate glass at its Dearborn Street branch. In Manhattan even a pro-New Deal publisher, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, his pockets lined with...
...this spendthrift energy produced, beside mob cheers and showers of torn paper, just two addenda to the history of the campaign of 1936. One was the emergence of the Social Security Act as a prime issue. Capitalizing their belated discovery that the 1% tax on wages which goes into effect next January to begin a sinking fund of some $40,000,000,000 for workers' annuities was a vote getter for Republicans (TIME, Nov. 2), Governor Landon and his cohorts hammered it home, while Franklin Roosevelt & friends cried "Shame," "Falsehood," "Coercion...
That day Father Franklin passed a far harder examination and won the undoubted right to call himself the ablest master of U. S. politics in a century. He got the highest mark awarded in the Electoral College in 116 years, a popular acclaim utterly dwarfing even the mob idolatry enjoyed by Andrew Jackson, whose fox-&-hound watch chain Franklin Roosevelt now wears...