Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtyard of Amalienborg Palace was jam-packed with strapping, irate Danish farmers in the grip of a grievance. The King, as he peered from his palace, noted on some brawny arms the swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage moratorium and dismiss politicians from the Government's agricultural bureaus. In a huff the Premier refused to see the farmers...
Returning to Texas, Hardin married, went into the cattle business, killed at least four and perhaps eight Negro policemen, was almost killed when a local badman emptied a shotgun into him point blank. Chased by one mob after another while terribly wounded, he developed his lifelong fear of lynching, surrendered to the authorities, who let him escape. Cutting his way out of jail in broad daylight, he wrote that the guards told him when to work, "as the saw made a big fuss." Free, he plunged into the Sutton-Taylor feud, killed Sheriff Jack Helms, enjoyed a period of relative...
...Conservatives out." Only the smallest province, Prince Edward Island, which will vote this month, remains Conservative. In Ottawa discouragement among Conservatives was so acute that within the Party there was talk that Mr. Bennett might abruptly retire and put in the field some other Conservative whom Canada's mob had not become accustomed to blame personally for everything from Depression to moths in the clothes closet...
...soon developed that the blackamoors had a highly unsavage awareness of what they wanted, a dangerously efficient organization. Because of the poll tax increase, they wanted more pay. Their anger was against the poor Government, not against rich Roan. Last week the black mob swarmed into Roan Antelope's mine compound at Luanshya, wrecked it, turned to the company offices, demolished them, swarmed toward the power house. The white police advanced. An officer gave the command to fire. The corpses of six kinky-polled blacks were left behind in the dust after their fellows had stampeded away. When...
...Irish Academy should have to meet in a hired room (five shillings a night), bewails the modern Irish spirit ("our upper class cares nothing for Ireland except as a place for sport . . . the rest of the population is drowned in religious and political fanaticism"), sees darker times ahead if mob rule is not broken ("our public life will move from violence to violence, or from violence to apathy, our Parliament disgrace and debauch those that enter it; our men of letters live like outlaws in their own country"). Once, he says, he hoped a party was being formed to which...