Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his military science department head, Colonel George Chase Lewis, and other guests, he found a Pacifist crowd blocking his way. They jostled him, pinioned his arms for a moment. Then he raised his umbrella, flayed left & right, soon lost his umbrella. Police drove a flying wedge into the mob, surrounded...
...assault on and near-lynching of Judge Charles Clark Bradley by a mob of Iowa farmers because he would not waive mortgage foreclosure actions pending in his court (TIME, May 8 et seq.) : prison sentences (varying from six months to 20 days) for three of the six mobsters apprehended; suspended sentences for the other three; at Le Mars...
...same page containing your reference to lynching, you recite merely the facts, with little or no expression of your own, of the only case on record so far as I know, of mob law, pulling a judge off the bench, and, in the essence of things, except for actual death, lynching...
...fences broke out in a rash of red-lettered posters: OPPOSE AMERICAN INTERVENTION. To the delight of U. S. correspondents, plans for a magnificent "Red Riot" leaked out three days too soon. According to the scheme Dictator Machado's ever useful Porra (strongarm squad) was to equip a mob of hoodlums with sticks, red flags, Communist banners. Just as the Peten was warping in to its berth the "Communists" would assemble at the quayside with hideous cries and frightening gestures. At the proper dramatic instant up would rush a squad of well-groomed police to disperse the howling Communists...
...formed in 1920, is a man who holds his cards tight against his vest, smiles saturninely, plays with no partners, keeps his opponents at a respectful distance. Heavy of form, mellifluous of voice, he goes his own way, and has his own way: attends prizefights unknown to the mob, vents his economic theories among his industrial peers, takes no one into his con- fidence, and has many men under his domination. In practice Allied Chemical is not an alliance but a monarchy and Orlando Franklin Weber is its monarch. Studiously polite, wholly unyielding, little did Mr. Weber care last week...