Word: mobe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THERE they stood in an unswerving line, hands held proudly in the air, between the radicals and the police, trying to bring reason and peace to a violent confrontation. This was Saturday. This was the Justice Department in Washington. These were the New Mobe marshals...
...they had stepped in to prevent the militants from turning the demonstration the Mobe had so carefully organized into a scene of senseless, polarizing violence. A young Mobe marshal moved down the sidewalk pleading with the crowd through his megaphone, "This is not an official Mobe demonstration. Will all those not connected with this demonstration please leave this area...
...militants continued to provoke the police, it became clear that the marshals had done all they could. A leader from the Mobe marshals conferred with the captain of the police. They looked out on the crowd. The Mobe marshal sadly shook his head...
Then with the authority and dignity of a man twice his age, he rode through the crowd on a motorcycle broadcasting, "All Mobe marshals step to the side." "God help us," he said...
...demonstrations were large. Nixon's silent Americans seem to lack the verve, organization?and spare time ?of his critics. They also lack a national apparatus comparable to the Moratorium Committee and the New Mobe. Said Bob Hope, honorary chairman of National Unity Week: "It's pretty hard for good, nice people to demonstrate." Still, the antidissent faction mustered far more activity and activists than before...