Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, when the B. E. F. had left, the President more fully expressed his indignation. Said he: "A challenge to the authority of the United States Government has been met, swiftly and firmly. . . . Government cannot be coerced by mob rule. ... It is my sincere hope that those agitators who inspired yesterday's attack upon Federal authority may be brought speedily to trial. . . . There can be no safe harbor in the U. S. for violence. . . . Order and civil tranquillity are the first requisites in the great task of economic reconstruction...
General MacArthur observed that the B. E. F. "was a bad looking mob animated by the essence of revolution." A week's delay by the President, he thought, "would have threatened the institution of our Government." According to the General, not one man out of ten in the B. E. F. was a "real veteran...
...your account of the Democratic convention you characterized the balcony spectators as "the rabble in the galleries." I take it that you used the term in a derogatory sense, meaning "the lowest class of people: the mob." If so, I deny the accuracy of the description. The crowd in the two balconies was composed mainly of visitors from States other than Illinois. There were some 300 of us from Michigan. Chicagoans packed the balconies for only one session, being admitted on passes stamped with Mayor Cermak's signature. Legitimate convention guests complained so effectively that the doorkeepers were changed...
...want Waters!" thundered the veterans, now almost a mob. "Turn him loose...
...Anacostia flats. He handled their scant funds for food, dug deep in his own pocket, none too well lined, for more. He kept the peace between a dozen rival factions and earned the affectionate respect of each. Altogether General Glassford gave Washington and the country a remarkable demonstration of mob management without benefit of tear gas, riot club or machine...