Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very much alive again, reincarnate in patriot guise and touring the country under the usual impeccable auspices with a rousing pageant called You Can Defend America. Some 50 regular members of Dr. Buch-man's troupe, aided by local volunteers in the mob scenes, last week put on four New Jersey performances of You Can Defend America-two in Newark, one each in Trenton and Kearny. The long and notable list of sponsors was headed by Governor & Mrs. Charles Edison. Dr. Buchman and the cast were busy as beavers between shows, explaining the principles of Moral Re-Armament...
...Peru; a brother, the late Leoncio, is a national hero. Manuel Prado was a scientist, an industrial manager, a banker. But his rise had been a hard grind. His first political experience, as superintendent of a polling station in the elections of 1912, was a beating by a hostile mob. While an undergraduate at Peru's University of San Marcos, he enlisted in the Army as a private, saw front-line service during the war with Ecuador in 1910. He had struggled along on the salary of an assistant professor in infinitesimal analysis at San Marcos. Accused...
...Nazi bullet narrowly missed the Cardinal. In 1938, a Nazi mob smashed the windows of his palace. Yet Germany's Catholic leader still talks back...
...Heaton of Bellevue Hospital in relating the difficulties of early medical research. By an unfortunate coincidence, the boy's mother had recently been interred in Trinity Church Yard. When a crowd of infuriated citizens opened her grave, they found it empty. For the rest of the day the mob ranged through the town, ransacking the doctors' houses for the body...
Most of the town's physicians took refuge in the city jail, where Governor George Clinton (uncle of De Witt) protected them by ordering out the militia (18 armed men). Statesmen John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, who tried to calm the mob, were stoned. So was Baron von Steuben, who, while pleading with the Governor not to use force, got hit by a brickbat and fell bleeding to the street. Changing his mind about pacifism, he cried: "Fire, Governor, fire!" At the first volley five people were killed, seven or eight wounded...