Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this took 20 minutes. Police, who must have seen the mob of 200 approach, arrived tardily, arrested 138. "We strikers acted in a gentlemanly manner as long as possible," said a strikers' spokesman. "We only decided to act when the Singer firm hired thugs as guards...
...between eleven and twelve francs (about 47?), popped this tidy sum into an envelope and mailed it to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. Mr. Edge wrote letters to the several dozen Frenchmen, thanked them, returned their money. Other Frenchmen wrote denunciatory letters. In Montparnasse a mob knocked out the front teeth of a Dr. Daniel Mahoney of San Francisco, who won a Croix de Guerre...
...since then trampled on by Chilean dictators galore. The inauguration of President Alessandri last week meant a return from Chilean chaos (which produced ten Chilean regimes in the past 18 months) to normal, civilian rule. But after such upheavals even a "normal" president must make concessions to the mob, especially since Chile is facing simultaneously an acute unemployment crisis, a food shortage and a currency crisis...
Whether or not these boys are guilty of raping two white girls found on the same train with them, a trial in which a Southern "house-swapping day, mob" plays the coercive part, should not decide their life or death. There seems to be something wrong with the system of laws which confines the decision of capital punishment to small districts, liable to unified prejudice or emotion. How many trials have been similar to this one at Scottshoro, it would be impossible to say. In this case it is almost matter of accident that the international Labor Defence got interested...
...episode is a decisive reply to people who think that the demands of college editors for freedom of the press is a trivial matter. In the East it is almost inconceivable that there should be a resort to the crude mob methods of American obscurantism. Yet in this case they are revived, and in a university environment, by a commonplace exercise of freedom of speech. It is obvious that if all such brutalities escape drastic punishment, then criticism of any sort must come to an end where they are condoned or extenuated. The man who would reinstate such transgressors certainly...