Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince of Wales was forced to change its name to The Prince of Piedmont; the Hôtel d'Angleterre draped a Fascist banner over its name; gregarious Miss Babington removed from her window the provocative sign "English Teas"; and police averted the destruction by an enraged mob of the Eden Hotel-although aristocratic young Captain Eden is emphatically "not in trade...
That night's gang shooting was not confined to Newark. Across the Hudson River in Manhattan, enemies again struck at the Flegenheimer mob before its four members were off the operating tables of Newark City Hospital...
...chief source of Flegenheimer's income was the policy game, the daily lottery which keeps most of Harlem's Negroes poor. Most players can bet only a few pennies at a time but total receipts run annually into the millions. On a table across which the Flegenheimer mob was shot in Newark, police found sheaves of financial figures, one adding machine slip totaling...
...this time somebody had sent for the Marines and volunteer constables were being hastily armed with pistols. The mob swept on out of town, barricaded the road with uprooted telephone poles, tore down the bridge at Camden Park and separated the Leeward and Windward sides of the island. Grocery stores, plantations and homes, including those of Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross, were looted. In Kingstown, a burst of rifle fire from the police killed three natives, wounded eight. Next morning into the harbor steamed H. M. S. Challenger, and in a jiffy a landing party of Royal Marines were...
...this week. When the daughter of John Cabal, dictator, volunteers to fly through space with her sweetheart in the interests of science and adventure, all dissatisfied elements in the world rally in a great antiscientific revolt, are confounded when Catherine and her lover running ahead of the mob, go whistling off toward the stars...