Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank's President Holman Pettibone. Meanwhile the teachers were trying to swarm upstairs past the guards. A policeman flourished his night stick. A teacher named Ted Farrington ducked, took a resounding blow on the neck instead of the head. He toppled and the crowd surged up to mob the guards. Women screamed, fainted. Windows crashed. Teachers hurled school books. A second teacher was supposed to have been clubbed in the mêlée. Outside the bank a larger crowd grew restless; excited male teachers and bystanders tussled among themselves. Anything might have happened had not shrewd Leader...
...could beat the case without trouble. But a number of the members [of the House] are afraid if I waive immunity they will be bothered in the future by charges for little things. . . ." Finally he changed his mind again and agreed to a trial by jury. A mob of long unpaid, tatterdemalion Chicago schoolteachers invaded big Chicago banks to demand cooperation between banks and the taxless school board. Melvin Alvah Traylor put them off with an "I agree with you." Charles Gates Dawes cowed them with: "To hell with trouble makers...
...Blackwell from speaking at the dedication of the hospital, with "modern conveniences of gas and baths," which the original Infirmary soon acquired. Sponsors feared that Dr. Blackwell "might speak like a Woman's Rights woman." That was in 1857. When an early patient died of appendicitis, a mob tried to wreck the hospital because it was "an institution of some cranky women who killed people with cold water...
...warship "Worcester," which carried free supplies from American sympathizers to the Parisians, during the siege of 1870. Under the heading, "Religion, Finance and Democracy in Massachusetts," Mr. J. C. Miller discusses the economic and political causes and consequences of the Great Awakening; R. S. Longley relates the history of mobs and mob-rule in Revolutionary and Pro-Revolutionary times...
...long rectangular square in Naples, a crowd which fills the place solidly from wall to wall has been waiting for hours. In spite of the burning sun, the enthusiasm has never abated, and the low hum of the densely packed mob is steadily increasing in volume. There is a stir on the small balcony of the building at the extreme end of the plaza, a short, black-shirted, uniformed figure steps briskly to the balustrade, and the low hum swells instantly to a tumultuous roar which becomes ever louder as the minutes wear by. On the balcony the little...