Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near Nauvoo, Ill., a howling mob shot a onetime candidate for President of the U. S. The victim was Joseph Smith, patriarch of the Mormon Church, and the year was 1844. Last week there was more violence in Nauvoo. Four men, armed with a machine gun and revolvers, raided the Bank of Nauvoo, fled with nearly $8,000 in cash...
Cuba had a fresh President, that grand old man of the old line politicos, Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. Exhausted by his all-night job, Batista was still sound asleep that noon when President Mendieta pushed through a cheering, laughing mob with 20 potent politico friends to take the oath of office from his predecessor's well-trained father...
...Lynching" presumably derives from Col. Charles Lynch (1736-96) who dispensed rough & ready justice in Virginia. "Rolphing" derives from a California Governor who, before mob violence at San Jose, declared. "I wish the sheriff would close his eyes." Hereafter in TIME, "rolphing" shall apply only to official complacency toward "lynching...
...Especially I am opposed to capital punishment. No one should be executed--not even Andy Mellon. Killing one man will not deter another from committing murder and obviously will not help the man executed. However, Governor Rolph's plan of turning the guilty men over to the mob is not correct and when he runs for office again he will not have a corporal's guard in his support...
...Frenchwoman of having walked off from a restaurant with her husband's coat. In the course of their parley a crowd collects. The spirit of Verdun and the iniquity of the War debts are mentioned, and by the time they have reached the Vive la France! stage the mob has grown to such threatening proportions that gendarmes arrive and escort Jones to prison. There it is assumed that he is a spy. Soon the affaire Jones becomes the question of the day. Governments rise and fall on the issue. It looks bad for Jones. In melodramatic fashion...