Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want to go out and bite a policeman...
Some years ago while I was serving as Sheriff of Mobile County, Ala. a Mobile policeman was shot down and killed by a criminal Negro who was apprehended and lodged in jail. Feeling ran high and word was brought to me that types described by the Attorney General were organizing to take and lynch the prisoner. I had several of them brought to the sheriff's office and said to them: "I want to make you a proposition...
...much more ore. Girdler is not a steel man. He was chief of the Jones & Laughlin police force before he was dragged by the bootstraps to be president of the Republic. He's a company cop, nothing more and nothing less, and there's no company policeman big enough to whip...
...mornings later they rolled up to the Indianapolis fair grounds, held up a watchman while they made a telephone call. That afternoon they lunched at a restaurant a block from the Marion County jail, where their colleague Geisking was being held for killing the gang's second policeman. If they intended to "spring" their friend, they did not do it that afternoon. Instead, Brady & friends vanished...
...with toy guns and disguises supplied by their parents, set up "headquarters" in a shack. Last week Agent Schaefer strolled into headquarters, encountered a stranger who, when questioned, gave him a dollar and told him to keep his mouth shut. Stealing out to the street, Agent Schaefer signaled a policeman, exclaimed: "I've just captured a criminal." In the shack the policeman arrested Owen Bickel, 17, a convict who had just escaped from two Federal officers...