Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Late last December U Saw organized a patriotic demonstration in Rangoon, surrounded the Government Secretariat with two thousand students and 600 well-fed, yellow-robed Phongyis (Buddhist priests). Armed with umbrellas, lunch baskets, water bottles and red flags and shouting "Burma for the Burmans" and "Patriotic Fury," the mob took and then held the building against Government clerks, who had been out to lunch. Ba Maw's mounted police charged the crowd, injured 200, carried Leader U Saw off to jail. With his chief rival safely tucked away, the Premier could look forward to a long" and quiet tenure...
Flags decorated the cities, parades were held, anti-French demonstrations flared. To a cheering mob of black-shirted Fascists ordered to gather before the Palazzo Venezia, Il Duce struck his usual defiant pose on the balcony, shouted: "The splendid victory of Barcelona is another chapter in the new Europe we are creating. General Franco's magnificent troops and our fearless legionnaires not only have beaten [Premier Dr. Juan] Negrin's government, but many others of our enemies are now biting the dust. Their motto was 'No pasarán,' but we did pass and I tell...
Neither did anyone else, but the anti-Jewish handbills scattered by the mob were obviously not prepared by Mexicans. They were written in Castilian Spanish style, which few Mexicans use. They were signed by Ruben Moreno Padres, president of the Nationalist Vanguard, who boasted few months ago that his anti-Semitic activities had the support and the sympathy of the German Legation in Mexico City...
...Leon Forem, a Yiddish novelist from The Bronx. Prevented from entering by a barricade of tables and chairs hastily thrown up by the audience, the demonstrators besieged the building and hurled rocks through the windows. Finally police and firemen, armed with submachine guns and fire hoses, forced the mob to disperse...
...anti-Semitic riot in the New World: "It was a regular pogrom. I could feel it in the air. ... I think a big change has come over Mexico. My personal opinion is that all this was done under German Nazi influence. It was said that Germans were in the mob but I didn't see them...