Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roaring black market. There were demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then a mob attacked me," said the victim. Currently the most popular Cuban is Senator Eddy Chibas, ardent duelist and once Grau's close friend, who fills the air every Sunday night with rasping radio attacks on "the Government of dishonesty and indignity...
South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond thundered a demand that the mob be brought to justice. Greenville County deputy sheriffs and city police jumped into action. In a few days, with a hand from the FBI, they rounded up 31 men, got signed statements from 26 of them admitting participation in the lynching. The State Attorney General assigned a crack prosecutor, Samuel Ruth Watt of Spartanburg, to the case. In March, a grand jury indicted all 31 of the men for the murder of Willie Earle...
...taxi driver named Thomas Watson Brown was robbed and then stabbed to death by a passenger. Police thought the passenger was a 24-year-old Negro named Willie Earle. They arrested him and put him in jail at nearby Pickens. In the early morning of Feb. 17, a mob of white men went to Pickens, got Willie Earle out of jail and lynched him (TIME...
Midway in the second day, selection of an all-white jury was completed. Prosecutor Watt got down to work. His first witness was J. Ed Gilstrap, 62, the jailer at Pickens. Ed told about turning Willie Earle over to the mob. "I thought they meant business," he said, grinning. "They had a gun." Who was in the mob? Ed wasn't sure...
Last week in Shanghai, frightened and furious over persistent mob raids on their shops (nine in one day), some 300 rice merchants milled in front of City Hall. They shouted for protection. Mayor K. C. Wu refused it. They called for a gag on Little Happiness. Mayor Wu refused that. Someone cried: "Let's go to Heavenly Voice radio station and take care of Little Happiness ourselves!" Others echoed...