Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lured Mae Griffin, 15, into the nearby woods. There Lockhart, an itinerant maker and seller of artificial butterflies for home decoration, stabbed Mae Griffin in the side when she resisted his advances, raped her while she was dying. As soon as the story got around Shreveport, a mob of 5,000 rushed the Caddo parish courthouse where Lockhart was held. Two young women shrieked that the mob was "yellow" if it did not "go in and get him." It took four hours, two companies of militia and extra tear gas bombs from Barksdale Field to dislodge the mobsters from...
...peril increases and the play becomes more intense, its shabby cloak of propaganda happily falls away. Stevedore turns into a glorious melodrama in the grand manner of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. As a finale, the Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo or Dumas. When the white stevedores rush to the aid of the besieged blacks, the play's strictly partisan audience found itself cheering not for the symbolism of a workers...
...growled. The small boys ran off to the police. It did not take them long then to track down George Rogalski. The little girl, Dorette Zietlow, who had been missing for two days, was rushed to a hospital. That night she died. At her funeral, few days later, a mob of 15,000, mostly morbidly curious women, roared, pushed, fought with police. Said George Rogalski to a coroner's jury: "I walked up the alley and saw the girl and I told her I'd give her a nickel if she would come with me. She said...
Moreover, the CRIMSON states editorially that Friday's demonstration with its rowdyism is a testimonial to the uselessness of emotional appeals. Instead of making emotional appeals the speakers warned against mob hysteria and emphasized the need for clear and cool-headed thinking. The CRIMSON concedes that pacifistic groups should organize and be enthusiastic. How is it to be done without holding public meetings when one hasn't the money for claborate publicity campaigns and printing? Why haven't pacifists the right to demand police protection if necessary to insure that their meetings shall be as dignified and orderly...
...four days later the Minneapolis Council was in session, and the mob came back, 6,000 strong-strong also in convictions, for the Northwest has a considerable floating labor population, a type always more bitter in protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load...