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MINNEAPOLIS. Homemade bombs shattered windows at the homes of two white cops. One was a patrolman suspended for 30 days for slugging a Negro with a blackjack. The other was his precinct captain, suspended later for allowing fellow cops to take up a collection to help the patrolman. Negro ministers responded with their own special church collections-to help repair the damage to the two houses...
...wheat areas-bankers, merchants, lawyers, local officials-to help persuade the farmers. In Keenesburg. Colo., for example, the Citizens State Bank placed in the local newspaper an ad warning farmers that the bank will have to tighten credit to wheat farmers if the Freeman plan is voted down. "Blackjack Tactics." Freeman's battle for yes votes has brought charges that he is violating the spirit...
...After Freeman recently assured Congress that he had not tried to influence the wheat farmers' votes, Montana's Republican Congressman James F. Battin charged him with duplicity, called for his resignation. Last week the House Republican Conference issued a statement accusing Freeman of "half-truths" and "blackjack tactics." Freeman, the Republicans charged, was trying to turn the referendum into a "pressurendum." Freeman has an unforeseen ally on his side-the dry weather that has afflicted great stretches of the Great Plain this spring. Western Kansas saw its driest April since 1887. Six counties in Colorado have asked...
...Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr. (now with the New York Post) for panning his latest creation. Bleeck rushed to the scene shouting "We don't allow overly intoxicated people here, and no fighting neither." With that, he beat a smart tattoo on Kirkland's skull with a blackjack he just happened to be carrying...
...meat, butter and automobiles on the black market; in Pavlodar, three men managed to make off with no fewer than 300,000 bottles of wine and vodka. The entire party and government leadership of the Kzyl Orda region masterminded a ring of cattle rustlers: the local Communist chief organized blackjack games and set off an "epidemic of gambling...