Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Frank Pace arrived at Washington's National Airport, where a bright-eyed young lady gave photographers the chance to record a candid study in the technique of homecoming welcome. With happy six-year-old abandon, Priscilla Pace catapulted to the arms of her father, who welcomed the assault with obvious pleasure. At week's end Pace left his official problems long enough to go on another trip, this time to join the gold braid section in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, where he watched Navy trounce Army...
...steps, and said to him, 'Are you hanging around here again? Didn't I tell you to stay away the other night? I have a mind to push you through the building.' Whereupon the two men at Evelyn's father's side came to life and arrested Hugh for assault and threat. There was no lecture that night...
Florabel, once winged when she was following Racketeer Mickey Cohen, and he was fired upon by business rivals (the News then let her put a bulletproof corset on her expense account), had Tone arrested and jailed for assault. But, though she is an old tabloid hand, she didn't think the fuss was Newsworthy until the paper wired her to write...
...Foster-then an A.F.L. organizer, now the top U.S. Communist-tried to close down the plant to organize it, Fairless decided that the best way to break up the picketing was to start a fight, and get the pickets arrested. Cursing and swinging his fist, he led the assault. The plan failed, but the pickets quit anyway. Years later, Fairless met a strike in another way. Although Griffiths, under pressure from other businessmen and churchmen, wanted to settle, Fairless brought in 500 strikebreakers and broke the strike...
Boston and Cambridge police have been called in to investigate the brutal assault upon Kenneth King. 25-year-old graduate of the University of California, by two unidentified men. King is now resting at Stillman Infirmary with a broken jaw and head bruises, though he did not suffer a fractured skull as was at first feared...