Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lynching, like Slavery, has never recognized racial or geographic limits; as the fate of the Mayor of Omaha forcibly reminds us. Hundreds of white men in this country have been victims of lawlessness and mob violence; it was the lynching of a Montana labor leader that called forth President Wilson's utterance of July 26th. It cannot be confined to the South: excluding New England there is not a single section of the Union which has not been the scene of at least one lynching in the past 22 years. The evil is national in range and scope; the nation...
This last step taken in the attitude of the University toward the Boston riots is a fitting corollary to the part played by graduates and undergraduates in the troubled times last week. The great courage shown by Harvard volunteer policemen in facing the mob of hoodlums has given the University and college men in general a position of trust in the minds of law-abiding citizens. The latter will realize more and more that in education and in the spirit of the atmosphere created at Harvard and other colleges lies the hope of a safe passage at this stormy period...
...time when so much discredit has fallen upon our city--when the trusted guardians of law and order have turned deserters, and their act had abandoned for a moment our streets to the mercies of a mob of thieves--it is cheering to note that the spirit of American citizenship is by no means dead, and that the saving grace of loyalty is found in many quarters. We have had in the last twenty-four hours a demonstration of notable public spirit, for example, in the action of the President, the Faculty and the students of Harvard University, who have...
Councillors, Court Ladies, Footmen, Guards, Army of Bolsheviki, Models, Mob...
Members of Bolsheviki mob, army, courtiers, retainers...