Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veritas Films offers students a chance to be common on the Commons and to have their antics eternally recorded on celluloid. President William Alden '50, said this is the final mob scene on their shooting schedule and that they are in need of old-clothed extras to act as kiteflying factory workers...
...handful of anti-Wallace C.I.O. auto workers picketed the Memorial Coliseum where he was to appear. Some 2,000 of Evansville's population joined in. Hoodlums stormed the Coliseum's doors, slugged Wallace Campaign Manager C. B. ("Beany") Baldwin and two other Wallace coworkers. Police dispersed the mob. Cried Henry: "The blame for this violence lies with the press for giving misinformation." Inside the hall an uneasy audience of 500, most of them well dressed, settled back to listen to the champion of peace, appeasement, and the "common man," and to contribute $1,000 to his cause...
...afternoon the word spread: Gaitán was dead. The mob, which had quieted under the efficient handling of federal troops, went mad. Its members drove into the Cundinamarca building (provincial capitol), set fire to Gómez' Conservative newspaper El Siglo. They hurled stones through the windows of the President's palace. Across the city (pop. 400,000) smoke swirled from mob-struck buildings. Federal troops and police were powerless...
Most U.S. correspondents were in the Astor Hotel and they had a grandstand view of the fighting, in which 300 died. Cabled TIME Correspondent Tom Dozier: "Outside the hotel lie the bodies of two men and one woman who climbed atop one of the tanks that moved through the mob to defend the Presidential Palace. Government riflemen lying prone in the street popped them off at short range. One fell beneath the tank's treads and his head was crushed. It is not a pretty sight...
...Independent Progressive Party, formed to support Wallace, had qualified for the ballot (with 295,951 valid petition signatures). In California, left-winger Robert Kenny, leader of the "Democrats for Wallace," cried: "I now feel like that fabled man in the French Revolution who said, 'There goes the mob. I am the leader. I must follow them...