Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon the Vagabond finds himself with no choice but to follow the crowd to the Union to watch the turn of the tide reflect on the grid-graph. Lesser considerations must stand aside as the backs go tearing by. Rarely does the Vagabond feel the urge of mob psychology, that inexplicable longing to go and do likewise, but stirring considerations like those afoot today whirl him willy-nilly to the Union. In connection with this subject the Vagabond finds that there are some interesting lectures which he recommends...
...that, "There is basis for a science in government and politics," beginning with the observation that in an emergency in every country of the world a strong man can seize power. The method is dictatorship and an organized minority. "The Bolshevik, minority," as Steffins said, "waiting amid the first mob democracy in Petrograd, waited for its splitting into minorities, and seized power at the psychological moment." Lenin stated in defense of that course of action, during an interview with Steffens, "It will be more significant in history if we try out the Marxian system than if we made a successful...
...Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled and swigged vodka*-but Stalin remained as usual coldly, inscrutably by his own fireside, never addressing the mob by radio, never overwhelmed with public adulation, never interviewed, scarcely recognized on his infrequent rides about Moscow in a closely guarded limousine...
...sooty raven of hard luck creaked again, last week, at poor Edouard Herriot. His toboggan from power has been likened to that of David Lloyd George. Both men are time servers, gambling on the turn of the mob. The undoing of M. Herriot began when he dared to duel politically for the Prime Ministry of France (TIME, July 26, 1926), with wily Aristide Briand, who has held that office nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned...
...such moments policemen should be calm. One of the Pons policemen, said to be a relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their...