Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working all one day in a mob scene on a Hollywood cinema set, the Countess of Warwick earned $7.50, which she gave to another extra...
...deliver Nazidom's final electioneering blow in Danzig last week came the master mob orator who at times surpasses even Adolf Hitler, Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment. Goebbels' gems...
...clock Mrs. Van de Elst went sweeping up to the prison gate in a cream-colored limousine, shouting through a loudspeaker: "They are hanging an innocent man. We have last-minute evidence to prove it." Three loudspeaker vans were already driving back & forth blaring out "Abide With Me". A mob of 50 sandwich men paraded with signs. Mrs. Van der Elst's supreme inspiration, three airplanes zoomed above the prison, trailing banners, "Stop the Death Sentence." Promptly at 9 o'clock, the trap dropped under Murderer Brigstock. "Gentlemen remove your hats," Cried Mrs. Van der Elst, falling...
...With my riding whip, I sometimes give it to prisoners I have had taken into protective custody to save them from the mob. Take that schoolteacher Dr. Steinruck who used to talk so big! I went with several Party members into his cell. He began to talk with a weeping voice and acted like a schoolboy. He did not act like the man I had expected after so much big talk, so I gave him a good thrashing with my whip...
...months. Gradually he got Peter's story out of him. Peter's brother, Andy, was the "front" for the Los Angeles beer racket and one of Capone's lieutenants. A goodhearted, not too brainy racketeer, he supported Peter, kept trying to persuade him to join his mob. But Peter wanted to be a writer. Moreover he had run across his cousin Jack, who had become an I. W. W. organizer, and whose devotion to the labor cause gave Peter something else to think about. While Jack languished in San Quentin, Peter to his horror fell in love...