Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This, last week, the Deputies dutifully did. But not before a mob of Haitians had stormed into the Chamber through broken doors and smashed the Deputies' desks. The mob objected to Elie Lescot not only as Stenio Vincent's stooge but as too good a friend of the neighboring Dominican Republic's Boss Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, whom most Haitians blame for the border massacre of 1937 (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). The mob was ill-advised on both counts. Elie Lescot wangled an indemnity out of President Trujillo. And Stenio Vincent loves leisure more than power, would...
...what made the bugs jitter. Last week came an answer: they were hired to. Haled into a Manhattan court was Irving ("Schnitz") Davidson, boss of an organization called "The 200 Characters," who could be had to dance in aisles, make a fuss over celebrities arriving in railroad stations, mob people for autographs, carry instruments for orchestra players. Charged with assault on a muscler-in on his trade, Boss "Schnitz" was let off with a suspended sentence and a warning to break...
...Crimson campus police swamped the New Haven mob in a telegraphic bowling battle several weeks ago, but the Eli flatfoots want another crack at their obviously superior opponents...
...after his private plane plunked into a California field, long-lipped, string-bean Jimmy Stewart, best cinemactor of 1940, barged through a suitably large mob of female admirers into a Los Angeles trolley car, departed with other draftees for a year in the Army. Jimmy figured to make rather less money this year - $21 a month instead...
...clothes, studying railway facilities, bridges, roads. On these roads there presently blossomed new, brightly painted signs-in German. Nazi General Staff officers, their boots glistening black under their raincoats, suddenly turned up at Sofia's best hotel. Later they stood at the hotel windows and stared at a mob of student patriots who were shouting slogans against Nazi occupation. At Sofia's biggest theatre Nazi diplomats gave a party for Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff and his Cabinet. What the Nazis showed their guests were films of Hitler's conquest of France-the same kind of films...