Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as Texas suffered enough from the regrettable incident; in as much as Mr. Moody has always stood pre-eminently for law enforcement, and for extreme measures when necessary against the lawless mob, I hope TIME will see fit to publish the true story of the order, "don't shoot...
...telegram from Governor Moody telling Capt. Frank Hamer of the Texas Rangers to protect Negro George Hughes, but not to fire on the would-be lynchers. The court of inquiry "is convinced that this report was instigated by a person in Sherman for the purpose of stirring up the mob." The court blamed the newshawk for lack of diligence in verifying the rumor, which Associated Press and other agencies circulated widely. TIME'S story clearly stated Governor Moody's denial of any "don't shoot" telegram, a denial substantiated by a search of telegraph company files. TIME...
...desperation the fat Mayor of Germersheim leaped upon a truck, begged the mob in the Fatherland's name to disgrace Germany no further, promised to go to Munich and intercede in their behalf...
Inside the Court House cowered no blackamoor. Something else had roused the passions of the mob. A law about an insect: phylloxera vastatrix...
Stirred by complaints from the district, the Bavarian Minister of Agriculture at Munich recently ordered all American vines near Germersheim destroyed. That roused the mob, As it grew uglier last week 150 State police dashed up in motorcars, formed a cordon around Germersheim Court House. Doubling in fury, the mob broke the cordon, stoned and stormed the neat brick structure...