Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midnight. Fay, according to witnesses and his later acknowledgment, had been drinking since 5 in the afternoon. Others in the bar included George E. Browne, president of the stage hands' union, 12th vice president of A. F. of L. Once charged with being the "front" for the Capone mob, Browne boasted among officials of his union Willie Bioff, convicted panderer, Nick Circella, Chicago mobster...
There, during the past few summers, the Passion Play has been performed twice a week in clear, still air free from mosquitoes. The permanent cast of 23 has been swelled, for mob scenes, by local Protestants, Catholics, Jews. Audiences have included thousands of tourists, Wyoming cowboys, Dakota farmers...
Greatest show of all time was the $155,000,000 New York World's Fair. On its last day, a record mob of 538,000 jammed the 1,216½ acres to pay last-minute respects. Despite more publicity, more exhibits and better backing, it failed to match the record of its rival. Over 19,000,000 paying customers clicked through the shiny turnstiles this year, one-quarter less than in 1939, less than half original astronomic hopes. Fair Chairman Harvey Dow Gibson estimated that his 1940 gross was $10,450,000, his operating profit $5,020,000. When...
...that the law will always retain this safeguard. By merely repealing this clause, Congress can rule that registered persons henceforth inducted into the land forces of the United States shall be employed in any war in which the government at the moment, perhaps compelled by imperialistic monopoly interests or mob hysteria, may see fit to engage...
...called up." Said the Globe & Mail: "All military experts reject [the scheme] as comparatively useless. . . . Soldiers who had barely learned to shoulder arms and form threes would be no more effective against the highly trained and mechanized forces of the enemy we are now fighting than an unorganized mob equipped with pitchforks...