Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divorce trial in Chicago of Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (The Red Network) Dilling (playing to a packed gallery of 250 spectators) four fights broke out in the mob that couldn't get into the court room; bailiffs were unable to squeeze their way out to disperse the mob; Mrs. Dilling's 24-year-old son made a lunge at a spectator who had made a wisecrack; because the gallery kept guffawing, the judge finally cleared the court; Mrs. Dilling, trying to make a little anti-Semitic speech, got herself cited for contempt...
...might be well to point out that serious doubt exists that any federal anti-lynch bill could improve conditions. A lynching is not the result of careful planning on the part of a few leaders. It springs from mob violence. When such violence has risen to the point where it will result in a lynching, the existence of a law will have no effect. And is it to be supposed that any federal law will result in later effective action against a mob whose leaders often "are not known...
...mobs were allowed to loot German stores, manhandle German nationals. One mob piled the contents of a German-owned bookstore in the street, kindling them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...
...undersigned," the petition reads, "in view of the menace to the victory of the United Nations occasioned by mob violence against Negro Americans and by the deliberate use of such incidents by Axis propagandists to divide the nation at home and discredit it abroad, respectfully request that you use the weight of your office to support Federal Anti-lynching legislation...
...Provence which they had long loved and where they expected to end their days. They were growing old. Then something happened which would never happen in a well-contrived Oppenheim novel-the Nazis swarmed into northern France. The refugees swarmed into southern France. It was like a badly directed mob scene from an amateur production of The Last Days of Pompeii...