Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lansdale where the strike began in late June three hosiery plants shut down. Last week one, the Dexdale, tried to reopen. Strikers and their friends gathered outside to block "scabs." Fifty local police turned out to drive off picketers, guard the plant from a mob...
...minutes the grimy pilot was held prisoner in Winnie Mae's cockpit by the railling, shouting mob. Post's Manager Lee Trenholm fought his way through, managed to hand Pilot Post a jug of ice water which he drained at a gulp, and a white handkerchief to cover his empty left-eye socket (he had lost his white patch in Alaska). Radio announcers all but jammed microphones down his throat. ''Where have you been since last Saturday?" Manager Trenholm asked obligingly for the benefit of radio's millions of listeners. "Damned if I know," Pilot...
...Chrysler's cars have been specially honored by thieves because they have speed and a quick getaway-useful not only to the thief but to the thief's gangdom customers. One ''mob'' is reported to have standardized on Plymouths for the current year...
...celluloid factory burst open in a cloud of fire. A hail of bricks pelted the street. Long streamers of flame whipped out of the shattered roof and flapped at the sky. A shower of burning celluloid, floating down in blazing strips and flakes, fell on the screaming mob of men, women and children for a quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their burning hair and clothes. Mrs. Latone, aflame from head to foot, leaped into...
...moment is not far off when we must act not only in the interest of national finances, but also in thai of the Republican regime. . . . Mob movements threaten to violate the domiciles of the people's representatives. ... If the means now at our disposal are insufficient I will ask for others from...