Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down Mexico City's broad Paseo de la Reforma swept a noisy mob: partisans of Presidential Candidate Miguel Aleman. On their shoulders they bore a black coffin emblazoned in big white letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the shooting may be expected momentarily...
...have been badly misinformed. Not a single president or dictator in my country has taken advantage of his position to enrich himself. Every one of them . . . has been an honest man. Dr. Velasco Ibarra, indeed, speaks frequently about graft from his predecessors as a political trick to impress the mob. It is one of his many low political tricks...
Last week a group of griping soldiers met in Aldershot (pop.: 36,000). Soon the group grew to mob size. A rumor rose that some Canadian soldiers were imprisoned in the local jail. The mob marched off to release them. For two and a half hours they rioted through Aldershot, breaking windows, overturning cars, ignoring the pleas of senior officers...
That evening the rioting broke out again. With shoes, sticks & stones, the mob smashed most of the remaining windows in Aldershot's stores, made a shambles of the town's shopping center. Said one soldier: "Yesterday it looked as though a V-1 had hit the town; it must have been a V-2 last night." In Ottawa, Defense Headquarters said every effort was being made to find shipping space to repatriate the Canadians. In the next six months 126,000 men would be transported back, but probably 125,000 Canadian soldiers, like thousands of U.S. troops, would...
...Wilkes arrested and his house rifled on a general warrant, which violated his civil rights. Then Wilkes, against all parliamentary precedent, was not allowed to avoid prosecution by pleading parliamentary privilege. Bolting to France, he was declared an outlaw by the Government, but acclaimed a hero by the mob. "Wilkes and Liberty" became a national outcry...