Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fury (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stabs into its subject, mob violence, with a variety of searchlights, sociological, humanistic, dramatic, while the subject itself turns under the beams until each phase of it has been successively and rather fearfully illuminated...
...incited Frenchmen to attack rich Socialist Leader Leon Blum, who is slated next week to become France's first Jewish Premier. Three months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give Leon Blum a cruel beating on a Paris street (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. Last week Editor Maurras, who is stone deaf, rushed forward to the Judge's bench, began shouting his fears that Leon Blum would lead France into war against Italy. "If my threats of death...
Last week Negro Lint Shaw, whom Judge Moseley had thus saved from lynching, returned from safekeeping in Atlanta to Danielsville to stand trial for attempted assault on a white woman. A murderous-looking mob forced his transfer to nearby Royston. There at midnight the same mob ripped him out of the jail. At daybreak his bullet-ridden body was found swaying from a pine tree in a creek bed, Georgia's 468th lynching.* Few days later in Pavo 200 Georgians raised the total to 469 by lynching Negro John Ruskin, confessed murderer of a white...
...Lepanto, Ark. a 19-year-old Negro named Willie Kees was warned to leave town before a mob judged him guilty of a recent assault on a white woman, treated him accordingly. Kees left, last week foolishly returned, was arrested. Before he reached jail ten men snatched him away from the sheriff, bound his hands behind his back, drilled him with bullets that brought Arkansas' lynching total...
High Commissioner Wauchope, however, had taken his own precautions. For four hours he stopped long-distance telephone service to prevent the spread of false rumors. He disseminated counter-rumors of his own. The police machine guns would fire, not into the air, but into the mob at any future Arab disturbance. Thus the Friday services were attended, not by the expected tens of thousands of Arabs, but by 500. When the Arabs came out of the Mosque, detachments of police fell in before and behind them, led nonresidents quietly out of the city...