Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida legislator got up and amused the crowd with a funny speech as it waited for the spectacle. It was nearly midnight when one of the "lynching committee" appeared to announce that he feared violence with so many people around; there would be no show until most of the mob went home. Plain truth seemed to be that the lynching committee had so brutalized the Negro that he had died back in the woods on the banks of the Chipola River before the lynchers had a chance to kill him publicly. He was certainly quite dead when, toward morning...
...William Hamm Jr., St. Paul brewer, was abducted in June 1933. Because he could not identify his captors, Gangster Roger Touhy & mob went free. But Federal agents promptly hung the kidnapping of Gambler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor on them and Illinois sent Touhy & gang to the penitentiary for years & years...
...John's (Annapolis, Md.) a rebellious freshman mob started after a tyrannical sophomore, bent on dumping him in the Severn River. Suddenly they were confronted by a grim, menacing figure. "I suggest that you act like gentlemen," snapped St. John's new President Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, 51, onetime Federal Prohibition Administrator. Thereupon the freshmen melted away...
Persistent reports said the mob planned to tie the negro to a stake near here tonight and let the father of the girl he killed do to him "whatever he desires...
...believed that the mob was determined to lynch the negro tonight and there was nothing law enforcement officers could do about...