Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once the agent in Colombia of Dillon, Read & Co., suave, bankerish Dr. Alfonso Lopez was last week inaugurated President while a mob of 50,000 jammed Bogota's Plaza Bolivar and roared themselves hoarse...
Overshadowed by the World War every-where except in Latin America were the wild events in 1915 when Haiti's black President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam had 200 political prisoners bayoneted in jail, took refuge in the French Legation and was dragged out and murdered by a mob. Two hours later the U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince and began forcibly soothing everybody...
Said Walter Kohler: "The blame for the actions of the mob is on the leaders and other outside agitators who provoked them to violence...
...strikers, accompanied by women and children, returned to the plant someone threw a stone. Smash went a window. From the pottery building the crowd moved steadily around to the Administration Building, breaking every window on the way. At that point the deputies sallied forth to break up the mob. Women and children fled before a wave of tear gas but the men returned to the attack. Again the deputies sallied forth. Rocks, bombs, clubs, shouts, curses made up the fray. Some deputies armed with shotguns fired on their attackers. After a two-hour struggle the strikers were driven from...
...climax came in a second battle. Police closed in upon a crowd of 2,000 strikers from both ends of Steuart Street. In the van of the mob were Howard Sperry and Nicholas Bordloise, longshoremen. Police fired at the fleeing crowd. There was a wild pounding of feet. Police followed. The crowd rallied. Another volley scattered it but Sperry and Bordloise lay filled with shotgun slugs on the sidewalk of Steuart Street. The police charge drove the strikers up Rincon Hill, on which will rest one end of the $75,000,000 Oakland Bridge. Work on the bridge stopped...