Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beaumont, Tex., 3,000 workers in the Pennsylvania Shipyard dropped their tools one night last week, marched on the city jail, seeking a Negro reportedly held there on a white woman's charge of rape. Finding the report false, the mob rioted in Beaumont's two Negro districts, finally wound up before the county courthouse...
...Ochlocracy is but the inchoate rococo of mob rule, bred on febrile emotions and unrestraint," said Wellesley-educated Mme. Chiang Kai-shek to Canada's Parliament. She also spoke of Germany's "immane dictatorship...
...mob went happily down Broadway, repeating in every theater, the Rialto, the Tower, Loew's. Others stopped streetcars, pulled off zooters, Mexicans or just dark-complexioned males. On went the mob, ripping pants, beating the young civilians, into the Arcade, the Roxy, the Cameo, the Broadway, the Central and the New Million Dollar theaters. The mood of officialdom (the Shore Patrol, the Military Police, the city police, the sheriff's office) seemed complaisant...
Hoodlumism. The mob split all over Los Angeles, to Watts, Belvedere, Boyle Heights, El Monte, Baldwin Park, Montebello, San Gabriel - anywhere that Mexicans lived...
...than was coming to them last week. The military authorities were notably lax (all shore and camp leave could easily have been canceled), the Los Angeles police apparently looked the other way. The press, with the exception of the Daily News and Hollywood Citizen-News, helped whip up the mob spirit. And Los Angeles, apparently unaware that it was spawning the ugliest brand of mob action since the coolie race riots of the 1870s, gave its tacit approval...