Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still trying to legislate morality with laws that are all but impossible to enforce. It is bad enough that the effort fails. Worse, it helps finance organized crime, a vast consumer industry that supplies millions of Americans with outlawed goods and services. On gambling alone, the Mob now nets as much as $10 billion a yearseed money for narcotics distribution, loan-sharking and bribes for corrupt lawmen who look the other...
...Loeb's scheme, computers would monitor the odds for all U.S. sporting events, detect suspicious swings of big money and thus discourage fixes. Customers could dial a bet and have the transaction entered on their phone bills. The Government would not pay bribes, which cost the Mob about $2 billion a year. It could make winnings tax-free and still get by with a 10% to 20% rake-offless than half the Mob's reported take. In short, the Government could offer better odds. As Loeb figures it, the Government might net $15 billion a year...
...President's harsh campaign line -in effect denouncing the Democrats as the party of permissiveness and charging them with being soft on violence -was typified in his Phoenix speech. In it, he leaned heavily on the incident during which his car was stoned by a mob in San Jose. Telecast again by the Republican National Committee on election eve, it became the party's campaign windup. Though the President sees things differently, there is considerable evidence that the speech did Republican candidates more harm than good. To many voters, the whole approach evidently suggested the rhetoric...
Stone decried the bellicose attitude of Senator Kennedy and vice-president Nixon which have "whipped up a lynch mob spirit" against Cuba. The "brutal, inhuman stereotypes" of Castro are wholly untrue and serve to poison not only international affairs but the existence of free government in the U.S., he asserted...
...This was no outburst by a single individual," President Nixon said in a quickly issued statement. "This was the action of an unruly mob that represents the worst in America." Nixon went on the offensive the following evening at a rally in Anaheim, Calif., which was broadcast on national television by the Republican National Committee at a cost of $48,000. "We must recognize," he said, "that in a system that provides a method for peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies resort to violence or lawlessness in the United States of America...