Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heat of the day and their own poor physical condition. Their positions were taken by ringers from an East Boston aggregation, each of these men being paid $100 by Lampy. After the contest the entire Lampoon team passed out in its Tally-ho at the Stadium gates, a jeering mob following it to Harvard Square...
...Crucible" is a drama of life among the workers in the Pittsburg steel mills It is similar, in a general way, to "Strife" and the "Mob", by John Galsworthy. The subject and main theme of the piece is the social conditions in the Pittsburg steel mills, coupled with the outlook on life of the workers there. The effect of the mills and the industry upon the minds of these people forms an important part of the atmosphere...
...Class hatred which is so rampant today is caused by the monopoly of social control of the machinery of credit, the Press, and industry. We are all of us cowards concerning public opinion; we fear the mob; not that the mob does not recognize a good thing, but someone free from the conservatism of the mob must see it first and call their attention to it. Mob superstitions are more vehemently held among the white-collared middle class (bankers are very middle class) than among the proletariat and real aristocrats...
...very nature of man, is a matter of doubt. When a negro has committed the crime of assault the usual cause of lynchings--the white man's instinct tells him that no penalty can be too severe, and an appeal to reason is futile. His natural resentment, fired by mob spirit and an underlying antagonism to the negro race, flares up uncontrolled. No matter how thoroughly he may agree, in a dispassionate mood, to every man's right of fair trial; no matter how well he may know that the offender will be punished by the courts, all that...
...points most strongly emphasized by Mr. Baldwin was the state of public thought in this country at the present time. He pointed out that we are too often influenced by the effects of "mob rule", and as a result our ideas are generally not our own, but those of the great body of the people. It is our duty, therefore, to find out where our opinions come from to discard those due to the momentary impressions of the masses, and retain only the views which are the result of sincere and careful deliberation...