Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the recent 'seizure' of New York's State Capitol by an allegedly CIO-led veterans' contingent, the Harvard Chapter of the American Veterans Committee last night voted by nearly two to one to notify National Chairman Charles G. Bolte of its agreement with him on the question of mob political action...
...Chicago, C.I.O. United Automobile Workers, picketing the American Automatic Devices Co., threw rotten eggs at police and fought them with their fists (see cut). In four days of violence 68 rioters were jailed and scores were beaten by cops. "Those mob scenes with policemen swinging their clubs make ugly pictures," observed Mayor Ed Kelly...
...incident had begun when a young Negro struck a white man. A white mob formed; the four policemen who were shot were mistaken by the Negroes for members of the mob, which surged into Mink Slide, Columbia's Negro district...
...mob surged on, piled furniture in through doors and windows, tossed out lumber from the ground floor, settled eleven families for the night. Outside, on the sign which read: "Naval recruiting daily 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. evening 7-9 p.m. Mon-Thurs" someone scrawled, "Hanratty was here...
...Front Page, London had Laurence Olivier's majestic production of King Lear. By early morning of the day before the opening, Londoners had queued up for gallery seats in the Old Vic's new theater on St. Martin's Lane. After the show a mob of howling men converged on the stage door chanting "Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? LARRY...