Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When striking truckmen rioted in Minneapolis last year two special policemen were killed (TIME, June 1934). One night last week another howling, ugly-tempered mob milled around Minneapolis' Flour City Ornamental Iron Co., which strikers from six other local iron plants had been trying to shut down since early July. Inside the plant, where they had worked, eaten, slept for three days, cowered 18 non-union workers...
About 11 p. m., when the mob had grown to 4,000 strong, 100 policemen set out to break it up with tear gas. The crowd fell back, surged up again behind a barrage of rocks. Nobody knew who fired the first shot, but soon guns were crackling on both sides. When the fighting ended at 2 a. m., some 30 persons were injured and two young men who had been innocently passing by, one on his way home from a church social, lay dead...
Appropriately, when onetime Socialist Polish Deputy Stanislaus Dubois led an anti-Fascist mob against the Italian Embassy in Warsaw last week shouting "Hurrah for Socialism! Hurrah for Ethiopia!" he and his friends were promptly arrested, permitted to cool off for a few hours in jail. Likewise last week Poles glorifying in the Pilsudski everywhere sang Jeszcze Polska Nie Zginela, their national anthem: Poland's not yet dead in slav'ry, She shall reign in splendor! What she lost her children's brav'ry Once again shall render! On, on, ye Legions, where battle rages! Poland shall...
...howling mob shoots a U. S. consul abroad, the U. S. Press takes lively notice of his death as a diplomatic "incident." Otherwise the decease of consuls at their posts rarely makes more than a stickful of home news. Last week, however, many a full-length obituary was devoted to the U. S. consul in Salonika, not because he died by his own hand as he was being invalided home but because he was George C. Hanson. Yet few of the news stories even hinted at the facts behind George Hanson's suicide...
...skulduggery. Two villains, Claude Claptrap, a popular demagog, and J. Gordon Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's foster-parent, Daddy Warbucks, who continues to be a model of industrious honesty. He has begun to market a remarkable new building material when Slugg and Claptrap rouse a mob to burn the factory and kill the inventor. That crime ruins the enterprise and Daddy Warbucks. Daddy behaves with restraint and fortitude, saying only, "Slugg's a crook but he's not important. What is important is that so many people can be fooled by a Claptrap...