Word: ems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listened to him. He asked them to keep the law. He asked them not to commit any disorderly acts. He said that in his opinion the bail of $30,000 fixed for Strike leader Weisbord (whom Sheriff Nimmo had just arrested) was excessive. A police whistle cawed. "Clean 'em up, boys," a voice directed, and the policemen, armed with clubs and shotguns, dissolved the group, hustled Mr. Thomas away to jail. After spending the night there, he was held on $10,000 bail for the grand jury. His lawyers made efforts to discover the offense with which he was charged...
...Matthews 43 about 5 o'clock after a momentary absence. Among them was C. P. Atherton '28, one of the occupants of the room. Stepping into his bedroom he leaned over to open a drawer, when some one seized him by the arm with the injunction to "put em up." At the point of a revolver Atherton backed into the room where his two companions sat. Offering to shoot the first one who moved, the intruder, who was a stocky foreigner of swarthy aspect, sidled toward the door and fled...
...their forms of worship. They demand protection against people who have no regard for decency or the laws of God or man. . . . And as to the Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis and Lions and Elks that you say are against this bill?well, I've spoken before all of 'em and I wouldn't consider their opinion on a matter of morals. ... Go from the pineries of Michigan to the cedar keys of Florida and from rocky Maine to San Francisco, and you'll find that wherever the Sabbath is loosest and freest the prisons are fullest. I know...
...some of these blue laws in Michigan. True, we have. But let any official try to enforce 'em. Why, the mere attempt would put any man out of office! ... If the ministers can't keep their people in church without this tyrannical legislation, it's high time for them to resign. . . . What this country needs is not less but more amusement...
...never can tell till you've tried 'em...