Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down curving Ankara Caddesi, Istanbul's Fleet Street, rushed a mob of students. They poured pell mell into the rickety three-story building housing Tan (Dawn), a leftist morning newspaper edited by smart Columbia University-trained Zekeriya SertelVsiey wrecked the old flat-bed presses, the crowd swept over the Golden Horn to attack the plant of La Turquie, which had suddenly turned leftist when the British withdrew their "favors" at war's end and Soviet agents started buying up thousands of copies daily...
...enlarging one. The star-crossed love of white Tracy Deen (Melchor Ferrer) and Negro Nonnie Anderson (Jane White) widens out beyond personal tragedy into social tragedy. The rooted Southern prejudices, the rankling inequalities, the violence that leads Nonnie's brother to murder Tracy, the feeling that leads a mob to lynch an innocent Negro for the crime-all these are like pieces in a sociological puzzle...
...since the London mob cheered gaudy Lord Nelson had any sailorman returned to port from victories so vast. But Americans were inclined to be a little vague about the U.S. Navy's white-haired, pink-cheeked Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who had directed the Battle of the Pacific from a desk. He had never courted publicity. He had accumulated stiff titles like CINCPAC or CINCPOA instead of nicknames. And he had spent most of the war at Pearl Harbor and Guam...
...Chateauguay, about 90 Witnesses spread out on a door-to-door tour, handed out their literature, delivered their standard anti-Catholic sermons. By the time they gathered for a meeting in Witness R. W. Weaner's yard, a mob of 1,000 men, women & children had a truck filled with rotten vegetables ready. The Witnesses were pelted. Those who resisted were beaten. Finally the crowd set up two fire sirens 25 feet from where Witness J. R. Dufour was lecturing, turned them on full blast and drowned him out. Fifteen Witnesses were arrested (for distributing circulars without a license...
Then, at Chateauguay again, the Witnesses tried to hold another meeting. Again a mob (about 1,500) threw eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, stones. Witnesses who tried to get away were chased and pummeled. Seventeen Witnesses were arrested...