Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have materially benefitted the Scottsboro defendants, it has at least served to emphasize the need for centralization, of criminal procedure in America. The petty jurisdiction of local medieval bailiwicks lends itself all too easily to intimidation either by organized thugs or by the blind fury of an ignorant mob. Only by the introduction of a strong system of federal courts, now made practical by modern avenues of communication, will local prejudice eventually be transcended and uniform justice meted...
...People May Know," always referring to other newsprints as "foreign owned," uniformly hectic in tone and quick in results. Such an editorial blocked the construction of the Denver Court House by fulminating against a legal peccadillo in the architects' charter, another on the Denver tramways inflamed a great mob to a lynching mood. Bonfils was the first editor to smell the Teapot Dome disturbance, and the clothespin on his nose cost half a million dollars. When the story broke, Bishop Johnson said of the Post "Denver is the only town in the world where the main sewer enters every home...
...Mais que voulez-vous? Human nature is weak, and possibly a little weaker just now than it has been for some time, so practically everybody on peering through the lens at the van Eyck Crucifixion will be stabbed to the heart to see the cruelty of the well dresed mob...
...instructor to her sons, who fortnight ago accused Vincent Astor, Mrs. Dick's stepson and President Roosevelt's good friend, of using "influence" to keep him out of Bermuda and the U. S. Indignant Edith Searle, Mrs. Dick's English secretary, told newshawks: "What a hungry mob of vultures you are! What dirty dogs! What torturers and persecutors!" Still suffering from a broken arm incurred two months ago in Bermuda, Mrs. Dick was carried from the ship on a stretcher, to a hospital in an ambulance. A Cleveland reader who asked Author Gertrude Stein to explain...
...view of this, the attitude of the American press fails to achieve the dignity of a crusade against oppression. It is simply in accord with the weak and vacillating policy, following the mob rather than leading it, which characterizes American journalism in times of great crisis. Perhaps the NRA may succeed; perhaps it may fail. Until something definite happens, however, editorial pens will shake warily with every tremor of public opinion, and, like the biblical character, blow neither hot nor cold...