Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the score 13-to-12 against them, the Chinese tried for extra point by a forward pass, Gunn to Got. Bill Got gathered in the ball on the goalline, was tackled and thrown back. The officials called it good, and the Chinese burst into a frenzied cheer. A mob of excited Japanese surrounded the officials, who changed their minds, awarded the game to Japan...
...Columbia, Tenn. the 28th was so peaceful that even the Sheriff did not know it had occurred. Cord Cheek, 20, accused of raping an 11-year-old white girl, had been exonerated by a Grand Jury, had gone to visit relatives in Nashville. Twenty minutes after he arrived a mob seized him, carried him to Columbia, strung him up on a cedar limb after riddling his body with bullets. Before dispersing they telephoned the Sheriff to come and get him. Said the Sheriff after investigating: "The lynching was handled in a very quiet manner. We have no clues whatever." Governor...
...granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman who as commander of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May Day, 1898. For exactly two years it lasted. Congress made George Dewey a full admiral, first since Porter. Dewey songs tinkled on every piano, roared from...
...proud old city of Baltimore. The Baltimore Civic Opera Company was responsible when it put on a one-act affair called Swing Low. In it Tenor A. Roy Williams, blacked up as a Negro, was making harmless love to Soprano Elsie Craft (also in blackface) when an operatic mob appeared to drag him offstage to a hanging...
...Lima, Peru, the censor withheld from inflammable Peruvians news of last week's mob activities at Salisbury...