Word: mobbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midtown Chicago 'legger of the Capone era - muscled on one hand by the North Side mob and on the other by the South Siders - was ever in a tighter spot than blue-jowled Benito Mussolini found himself in last week...
...Hitler mob, whom he has long found the most companionable, was putting terrific pressure on him to throw in with them, and there were plenty of signs that he soon might. Little Caesar sent a birthday wire to the Berlin Big Shot expressing "firm confidence that the German people will victoriously stand the test to which they have been subjected." He mobilized his entire Navy, and sent six battleships, 19 cruisers and about 75 destroyers into the Aegean Sea conveniently close to Salonika. His submarine fleet, estimated at 135 (the largest of any country in the world), went...
During World War I the young D. A. got into serious trouble with war-hysterical citizens. He refused to be "diligent" in prosecuting "pro-Germans" whose crime was mainly their accent. Once at Dillon, Mont., a mob drove him out of town when he tried to speak. On the outskirts he stopped, tried again, again was driven away, heckling his hecklers over his shoulder as he left...
CITIZENS -Meyer Levin - Viking ($2.75). This 650page hybrid-part fact, part fiction-tells the story of the South Chicago "riot" on Memorial Day 1937, in which police killed ten pickets at the Republic Steel mill. Mob-size, its cast includes nine dead pickets (who get individual background stories); a young Jewish doctor who rapidly develops from bystander to alarmed social critic; a welter of organizers, stool pigeons, scabs, Senators, professors, company executives, reporters, cops, lawyers. "By using only actual, attested events as materials," says Author Levin, "the writer reduces the possibility of arriving at false conclusions." Far less objective than...
Eight short months ago, Paul Vories McNutt was a Democratic hotshot. He placed well up on Pollster Gallup's popularity indexes, was known to one & all as a potent Presidential possibility. Last week, a Washington mob of political lynchers and character assassins, breathing heavily, stepped back from Mr. McNutt's mangled remains. There on the ground, they hoped, lay all that was Presidential of handsome Paul McNutt...