Word: bradshaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When World War II ended, Dr. Homer V. Bradshaw took off the uniform he had worn as a medical officer with General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, returned with his wife to his work at the Presbyterian mission at Lienhsien in China's Kwangtung province. At that time the Bradshaws, medical missionaries in China for 13 years, were 47-strong, healthy, and hopeful that they would be able to go on serving the country they loved. Last week the Bradshaws left China, the latest in the long line of returning missionaries whose pitiable condition told the world...
...Homer Bradshaw, feeble and haggard (he had lost 40 Ibs.), helped his wife to freedom across the Lowu Bridge that separates Hong Kong from Communist China; as they walked onto British soil, Red Cross workers had to support them. Wilda Bradshaw, skeleton-thin and empty-eyed, mumbled incoherently and shrank in terror from photographers' flashbulbs...
News-Star Reporter Jim Bradshaw, 32, went to County Sheriff Jim Harrington's office to find out why a known bootlegger for whom there was an arrest warrant had not been picked up. In a heated argument with Reporter Bradshaw, Sheriff Harrington knocked him down. With the help of a deputy, he punched and roughed up Bradshaw until a state-highway trooper stopped him. Then the sheriff jailed Reporter Bradshaw, bruised and stunned, on charges of "resisting arrest and abusing an officer...
After putting up bail to get Reporter Bradshaw out, News-Star Editor N. B. ("Beachy") Musselman went to work on Harrington. Said a Page One editor's note: "The News-Star has never published the criminal record of Sheriff Jim Harrington before because a man's past is not always indicative of his future actions. However, in the light of [what has happened], the News-Star feels an obligation to publish his past in full. We regret not having done so before." The record, spread across two columns of the paper, showed that Sheriff Harrington had been arrested...
...investigate Sheriff Harrington's regime, the local county attorney started action to challenge the sheriff's right to hold office. He also asked Oklahoma Governor Raymond Gary to help clean up bootlegging and gambling in Shawnee, and the FBI began an investigation to see if Reporter Bradshaw's beating was a violation of federal civil rights laws. As a result of its belated expose, the News-Star had also learned a lesson: the campaign to clean up Shawnee should not have waited until the beating of a staffer proved how bad things really were...