Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense we must have, but there is no reason for TIME to go as hysterical as the rest of the mob. Someone-and why not TIME? -should point out that we are neither England nor Norway, that even if the Atlantic has been flown over it is still a barrier to conquest, that Sims said he would be happy to defend our shores with a fleet half the size of any attacker, that every single expert knows Japan neither can nor will attack...
...liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk, the division of his life between teaching and research, and the sound of his own voice. He profoundly admired Herbert Hoover for his relief work-"It is too bad he became only a President later on." He bitterly despised Soviet Russia: ". . . The governing mob cared little in those days [1923] about a hundred thousand lives more or less...
...Witnesses short shrift. Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex., forbade a Witnesses' convention there, swore their refusal to salute the U. S. flag was an "overt act." But Republican Maine had the worst riots. At Kennebunk last week. Witness headquarters were sacked, burned by an angry mob. There and in nearby towns private houses were raided, Witnesses dragged out and beaten...
Trouble at Kennebunk began when patriotic natives concluded that Witnesses were spreading subversive doctrines. When a threatening group marched to "Kingdom Hall," flimsy frame headquarters of the Witnesses, late one night, two got potted with buckshot. Next morning a mob of 2,000 set fire to Kingdom Hall. Police clapped its six occupants into jail for assault with intent to kill, later jailed two of the 2,000 for arson. Then the riots began. By the second night mobs were hunting victims. At Wells, Me., a crowd went to one man's house, demanding to know whether...
Meanwhile the Nazi organization is Mexico's most vociferous exponent of "neutrality as in the days of Carranza."* Chief local firebrand working for Führer Dietrich is the leader of the Vanguardia Nacional, militant Adolfo León Ossorio, who once led a mob assault on the American Embassy, and 200 police had to be called out to protect the premises. He repeats his master's assurances that the U. S. plans to throw Latin America into the European war and then to annex Mexico. Against this menace the only safeguard is close cooperation with Germany...