Word: copses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the first, District 50's tactics were highhanded. They would not go into an election to find out whether the U.M.W. represented anybody at all. They counted not so much on their actual strength as the fear they could stir up. New Yorkers well remembered the 1934 cab...
This time Mayor Bill O'Dwyer put on a special detail of 3,250 cops, made the whole force carry their two-foot nightsticks during the day, set up 55 heavily patrolled routes over which nonstriking hackies could drive and be protected. The union bragged on the first day...
Politicians, hangers-on and reporters crowded into the smoke-filled city clerk's office in Jersey City. They were all assembled for a little democratic ritual. Twenty-five cops, loyal subjects of Boss Frank Hague, hovered around the old grey City Hall. Inside, Deputy City Clerk Ben Rosengard grasped...
He had about decided he would have to blast anyway, when three students heard him and called the cops. Parry was going back to his car for a longer wire when a patrolman stuck a pistol in his face. "Who are you, pal?" asked the cop. "I'm a...
Pints & Pints. In Beverly Hills, Calif., Joseph E. Maranghi, charged with drunkenness, told the court that he had celebrated his release from jail on a similar charge by selling a pint of his blood, buying booze with the proceeds. Cause & Effect. In Astoria, N.Y., Walter Stanger, whose two small runaway...