Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be doubted. This is particularly true in the South, and Georgia in particular has had a high total of lynchings to her discredit. Federal investigators of conditions have prophesied that increased construction of state highways here, bringing rural communities into closer touch with the judicial machinery, will curtail mob action. Anything destructive of the sentiment which motivates such action must be welcome. Representative Crisp's move, a step in the wrong direction, may be pleasing to his constituents. If he does not share their feeling he is a demagogue; if he does, little can be said for the type...
...first place, allow men to point out the utter falsity of the "facts" on which the whole editorial rests; headlines in the New York Herald-Tribune for Monday morning read "May Day Mob Beats Official At Melbourne; Polish Police Fire on 700; Tokio Seizes 1200 Reds; Spain Arrests Scores; Racial Strife In Africa; 80 Faint in Berlin Arena; Hyde Park Has Riot," while a front page story calls the New York May Day parade "the biggest communist turnout this city has seen." Your editor must evidently have spent the day in the poetry room of Widener, or perhaps talking with...
...scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts-so far as we are able to know and publish them-the public imagination would run riot. Ten days without the daily newspaper and the strong pressure of worry and fear would throw the people of this country into mob hysteria-feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day. . . . The collapse of an inflated era of spending has suddenly sobered the American public. It isn't jokes and cocktails that they want...
When special constables, brandishing their new truncheons, closed in on a woe-begone looking man who was helping himself to purple neckties, part of the mob suddenly set up such a roar of "Leave that man alone!" that the special constables let him alone and he absconded publicly with the purple neckties...
Back to earth comes David, not as David, to be sure, but as David's pious uncle. Since both parts are taken by the same actor (Thomas Mosely), the disguise is thin. He appears to Matt and Denny, members of the lynching mob, forgives them for their crime, pleads for a better understanding between the races. This action so moves Matt, the real murderer of the girl, that he and Denny decide that he (Matt) should be hanged. This is finally done with the same old rope in the same old tree where the Negro died...