Word: mobbings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boston's own Faneuil Hall, where last spring a mob of 500 raging, stomping veterans asserted their claim to an extra $900 windfall, was the scene of one of the earliest and most vociferous bonus rallies. Since then the question of bonuses has been an issue in almost every state or national veterans' organization. Happily, there has been no indication that a majority of veterans feel a bonus is desirable. While the VFW has announced itself as favoring the bonus, the new but active AVC is definitely in the opposition, and the American Legion, so far non-committal nationally...
...thousands of college men "because of the benefit of the intercollegiate program." The national publicity created by a winning team, the gate receipts from matches, the pride among alumni groups, all these are far more creditable to an institution of Harvard's stature than the awkward volleyings of a mob of ill-coordinated dubs every afternoon...
...Zealander Jordan (a former policeman) sailed into the Russian delegates' interminable speeches and innumerable objections which he called "blasted old rot." "Up to now," he said, "we have got no chairman. We are just a mob. I want to see something done in my lifetime. . . I'm sick of listening to quack, quack, quack, hour after hour. . . Let's get on to work. That's what the people expect...
Through the day, more & more workers joined the Tudeh men and tempers rose with the mercury, which hit a Zoroastrian 160°. By nightfall, when officials still refused to negotiate-the mob's fury burst like a rogue oil gusher...
Knife-wielding Tudeh toughs slew three other sheiks, impaled heads of victims to inflame the mob. By the time an infantry battalion got Abadan under control, a score were dead, 150 wounded...