Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there for a period of two years, for instance, during which time they will be working in factories, stores, plants, mines, offices, etcetera. When I say live there, I mean lead the life that the ordinary man in the street leads, unknown to the American Government, lost in the mob, riding in streetcars, having a Coca-Cola at the counter of some botica, getting into traffic jams, eating hot dogs at the races and getting very little sleep if they should live in New York City where the horns of automobiles make it so tough for one's nerves...
Colonel Jones was promptly confronted with another side of the situation. Grimly at work in the plant were some 750 employes, many of whom had been hired in the last few months. They had rejected C.I.O. membership, resented union attempts to intimidate them with a picketing mob of some 3,000 men, most of whom had never worked in the plant. Picketers had stoned their autos; they had clubbed picketers. Like Mr. Hill, they were angry and defiant...
...first aid instruction from November 18 until the Christmas holidays. According to Donald Scott, director of the Peabody Museum and chairman of the Conant appointed Defense Committee, the University in trying to lie-in the maintenance force which operates in normal times, with an organization ready for bombings or mob action...
...Dixie, the caravan circled the Capitol twice, then halted at a statue of oldtime Populist Demagogue Thomas E. Watson. A student jammed a wax bust of Talmadge over the statue's head. Up jumped Cheerleader William Malone and bellowed through his megaphone "Are we afraid of Talmadge?" The mob roared: "Hell...
...Irrevocable Hours, sketches of Hitler, Mussolini, Hess, et al., including a rational argument that Hess is in England because Hitler sent him there; 6) The River Flows Home, a hortatory and prophetic essay suggesting the shape of things to come. Sample: "The tumult breaks out once more. A mob storms the Bastille and a king's head rolls in the dust. Man will be happy yet. . . . You, too, workers of the world, in your slums and lightless factories, you will know the light...