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...asked for it. I've never answered a critical book review. I feel like I've had my 'say' in the book and the reviewer is entitled to express his opinion. But when a constable hits me three times over the head with a blackjack when my head is turned is something I don't derive profit from. It is something I can't get over easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Next morning, Stuart was having a milk shake in Leslie's Drugstore. In walked Constable Amos Allen, berated him for his editorial. Stuart said he would write as he saw fit, turned away. Then, according to Stuart, he was slugged three times with a blackjack. He locked his arms around Allen's neck and grappled with him on the drugstore floor. Spectators pulled them apart, sent Stuart to a hospital across the Ohio in Ironton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenup Poet | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes place. Agent Kelly fells Mueller with something which witnesses later swear is a blackjack. After five days, Death comes to Meat Merchant Mueller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Hornell. N. Y., Negro Chef Louis Sight asked Patrolman C. Kenneth Conley to let him look at his blackjack. Chef Sight snapped it inquisitively, knocked himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...women pulled out handcuffs, fastened themselves to the railing, screamed imprecations against Realmleader Hitler. Reported Editor Thomas Davin of Robert M. McBride & Co., publishers: "As we crossed over the deck, we saw a woman handcuffed to the rail. . . . The officer was striking her with what appeared to be a blackjack. ... As he hit her she ducked around. Then another fellow caught her. He held her head still with one hand over her mouth and the other at the base of her skull, while the officer hit her several times over the head. She slumped down. She shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Bremen Battle | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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