Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protesting against mob violence and racial prejudice as destructive to national unity, speakers at a meeting of the Inter-racial Council last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room called for the establishment of anti-lynching legislation and for the abolishment of racial discrimination in the armed forces...
...meaning of the word. This couldn't be said for our Army of 1917. Then, as in the twenties, the Army High Commond preached that democracy was the bunk. It put out a pamphlet on civics in which it referred to democracy as communistic, anarchic, a government of the mob. Many Army officers have since repented for this unpatriotic expression of personal opinion, and the Army in general has tried to reform its previously undemocratic stand as evidenced by the recent educational program. Though even the new High Command still has a long way to go, it is finally catching...
...Brazilian state police arrested 16 booted Storm Troopers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where German secret societies were driven underground in 1937. In the state of São Paulo a mob lynched a Japanese who ran amuck upon learning Japanese bank funds were frozen. Other Japs, heavily armed, revolted, were put down by a cavalry regiment and state troops...
...five days the Pacific Coast had its jitters. In Seattle, during the first blackout on Monday night, a mob of about 3,000 excited citizens gathered on a downtown corner, milled along the street, smashing 26 lighted shop fronts...
Prophet Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill. in 1844. Prophet Stewart was placed in a psychiatric ward for observation...