Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passions die hard. Two days after the General's plea for tolerance, mobs struck at collaborators. At Alet, in southern France, a crowd harangued by Resistance leaders broke into a jail, seized four men under death sentence, summarily shot them. At Bourges, in central France, another mob lynched a man and a woman' who had been condemned to death, then reprieved by General de Gaulle...
...shots squealed on big shots. Nicholas Schenck's brother Joe, imprisoned for income-tax evasion, informed on Browne and Bioff-and was soon paroled. A year ago, bored with the stuffy interior of the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Browne and Bioff squealed, too. Their words convicted the Chicago mob. Afterward, they were moved to the security of the "squealer's prison," a U.S. institution at Sandstone, Minn. Last week, three years after their conviction for eight and ten years respectively, a grateful Government put them on probation, gave them their freedom...
Bill Brogan told them that their gangs were fighting for Tojo and Hitler. "Boys," he said, "let's fight this war, not each other." He made the rival gang leaders shake hands. "We are going to get into one big mob," he said...
...mob" became San Antonio's now-flourishing "Junior Deputies of America," a law-abiding & law-enforcing corps of more than 800 kids aged 14 to 18. Brogan developed his first leaders from the rival gang captains, reconciled at the first meeting to each other and to the law. The first chief is now at an Army Air Corps gunners' school, his successor in the Navy at San Diego. From their office in Bexar County court house, the Junior Deputies have...
...chance of finding, as well, some disarming child in bobby socks who has traveled all the way from Idaho or Missouri or Maine just for the meeting. When he goes to take part in radio shows, he is well-hedged by policemen; they are necessary because young people mob him for any souvenir they can lay hands on. Johson's mail, at present, tallies some 8,000 letters a week-the highest mail count of any star in Hollywood...