Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French horse, Pepino, paying 9-to-1, managed to win the race before a workman threw the first chair over the rail. Then the hot, short-tempered crowd turned mob, rolled out of the stands into the track yelling against Jockey Semblat, the bookmakers, Pepino, the Government and Alexandre Stavisky. They set fire to half a dozen betting booths and piles of hay, tore down fences and Grand-Prix decorations. The horses lined up for the next race but when the crowd did not budge, it was the chargers of the decorative Republican Guards that came pounding down the stretch...
Directed by Edwin Carewe. Are We Civilised? is' stuffed to dullness with words. Farnum's harangue is illustrated with scraps of old historical films, mob and battle scenes, newsreel shots, flashes of prehistoric animals. Moses. Buddha. Confucius, Caesar, Christ. Mohammed, Columbus, Washington, Napoleon, Lincoln...
...Boston's finest must be afflicted with Jangled Nerves, because when Albort Mollinger of the League against War and Fascism started to shout louder and louder, some official, as yet unidentified, thought, "What the hell Why wait?" and loosed the cager bluecoats on the passive mob...
...bricks and beer bottles were trundled up from the rear to throw at Guardsmen. Unemployed joined the battle. Boys in short trousers popped at the Guardsmen with BB rifles. The battered Guardsmen retaliated with barrages of tear gas, with bayonet charges. The strikers, by now a passion-ridden mob completely out of control, retreated only to come back for more. Once Guardsmen fired over their heads. Then, without orders, a Guard platoon leveled its rifles and fired. Two men dropped dead, a onetime CCC camper and an unemployed battery-shop worker. Otherwise the Guardsmen kept their heads, drove back others...
...here where the Committee's findings have more to offer, for they have hit at the crux of the situation; the ignorance of the police in dealing with mob psychology. Their proposal to have a squad developed which will study methods of dealing with riots is excellent. Nevertheless, education must be given not only to the police, but also to the demonstrators. It is the latter's duty to find out what is within the bounds of freedom of speech and to conduct themselves thus...