Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were roses for José as she stepped off the train in Rome-roses from the Dictator. Excellency Mussolini later kissed Mile Laval's hand, but first he kissed Excellency Laval on both cheeks. Outside the station a mob of Romans, accustomed for years to shout "Abbasso la Francia! Down with France! " when they mentioned that country at all roared "Evviva Mussolini! Evviva la Francia! Evviva Laval!" With 5,000 trim Italian police and militia blocking off the station, the Frenchman's hotel and an intervening strip of Rome, II Duce gave a pointed exhibition...
...Hoaxwell, N. J. Attorney for the defense convinced a jury that the child had wandered out of his house of his own accord, could have died of exposure or could have been mortally mangled by foxes and skunks. When the jury brought in a not guilty verdict, an angry mob took over the county...
...pointed to E.K. Harris, but he was black and handy and was therefore charged with the crime. Subsequent medical examination of the fourteen-year old girl who had aroused the uproar disclosed the fact that she actually had suffered nothing but a few black-and-blue marks. Nevertheless, the mob of white farmers was so infuriated that, failing to capture Harris, it burned down the $150,000 court house...
...barely in the ground before the infuriated mobsters returned to the court house square. They upturned four National Guard trucks, set them afire. Then they stormed the 75-year-old court house, sloshed gasoline all over its floors, touched it off with matches. Firemen never had a chance. The mob stood guard over their work until the large brick building was a roaring furnace. The court house burned all night. All county records were destroyed. Shelbyville businessmen, aroused at the havoc their country cousins and excitable fellow townsmen had wrought, held a mass meeting, formed a vigilante corps. Dr. Moody...
...vineyards, the wheatfields and the deserts crackled news that the British Government of Palestine had lent $500,000 to Transjordan. To horse and to camel leaped the Arab sheiks, whipping their beasts hell-bent for Amman, the capital. Practically every tribal sheik in the country was in the mob that stormed the house of Premier Sheik Abdallah Sarraj, demanding a cut of the $500,000. "Our people are starving," they shouted. "Things are terrible. Give us our share or we will take...