Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlotte's cannery, the reformed lobbyist starts an enlightened co-operative industry which soon brings publicity and Capitalist Sartos to the scene. Sartos recognizes Blake, has him arrested, fosters mob-violence to wreck the cannery and the whole co-operative venture, upon which by this time the eyes of the whole nation are focused. How Blake gets out of jail, encompasses the fall of his foes and the rise of a new economic era brings The President's Mystery to an exciting though hardly realistic...
...couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant, fumbling helplessly with a service revolver. At the root of it all are the activities of a ring of crooks who have been using the store as a cache for stolen goods. Best gag: the murderer's mob, coming to his rescue in police uniforms, set upon with pails and mops by a group of berserk scrubwomen whom they had tied in the basement...
...Fanny Sweet, tall, homely, bespectacled girl who was thrown out of half-a-dozen of the toughest brothels in a tough city for bad behavior. Fleeing to San Francisco in 1849, she ran a haberdashery at enormous profit, killed a stage driver and later a member of a mob that invaded her home. Freed by a friendly Justice of the Peace she escaped another gang, returned to New Orleans, married the wealthy owner of Hinkley's California Express. She was arrested for mistreating slaves and for taking part in a voodoo orgy, later succeeded in trapping a rich widower...
...characteristically, with entirely different points of view. William Stoughton, the chief prosecutor of the witch trials; Nathaniel Saltonstall, the judge who left the bench "rather than stain his hands with innocent blood"; John Hale, the most active minister among the witch-hunters; Joshua Moody, the minister who braved mob fury in helping some of the accused to escape; and President Mather, one of the two men who did most to bring the prosecutions to an end--all were Harvard men. Or, to bring our illustration up to date, we are reminded that among the members of the Class...
...therefore, an English politician declares that Germany does not need colonies because it is free to buy raw materials, then the declaration of this gentleman is about as intelligent as the question of the well-known Bourbon princess who at the sight of the revolutionary mob roaring for bread remarked in surprise, why, if the people did not have bread, did they not eat cake...