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...patience even with the rapid progress now being made by Foreign Minister Dr. C. T. Wang. They knew that he was negotiating with Japanese Consul General Shichitaro Yada; and they thought both negotiators a little too polite and slow. Suddenly student exuberance boiled over, and a mob rushed to hurl brickbats and curses at the walls which sheltered Dr. Wang and M. Yada. Loomed a diplomatic incident of gravest sort. Only quick action by one of the Nationalist "Big Three"-Chiang, Feng or Yen (TIME, Dec. 24)-could stop the brickbatting, dispose the mob...
With four soldiers clinging to hand grips on the sides of his limousine, and with two more soldiers on the box behind, President Chiang Kai-shek sped to the scene. As the mob of students sullenly parted to let him through, and then closed in behind, Marshal Chiang faced a nasty situation. The so-called "students" are really a conglomeration of all the younger and more violent partisans of the Nationalist regime. They would have to be wooed and harangued, not bluntly ordered to disperse...
...case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow in from other big cities to "take that mob over the jumps...
...people whom I have in mind are the first to complain of mob law, lawless violence of laborites and other disturbances of the peace, but when it comes to a violation of the 18th Amendment, and the Volstead law, they seem to feel no obligation to protest. They would look at this law, that is declared in the Constitution and in the statute book, with contempt. One hears intelligent people say: 'As this contracts my liberty, I don't regard it as necessary to observe it.' Although they don't intend to, if they say that...
...appeal was heard in a cell to give Assassin Toral every protection from a howling mob outside the jail which wanted to lynch him. At the expiration of the hearing, the three Supreme Court Judges majestically departed giving no indication of whether or not they would permit Toral's case to be retried...