Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still loitering five minutes after the policeman asked him to more on becomes a criminal...
...enough to remember a pogrom, was taken to the U. S. in 1904. Growing up in the poverty-stricken Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, he learned U. S. ways painfully, was beaten up by Irish boys, stumbled over the English language, saw one of his friends flee after killing a policeman, learned the reality of hard times when his parents were evicted from their tenement...
...monopolized the streets near the railroad station to give the GOP Nominee the cold stare. Reception grew warmer as the procession reached the business section. Opposite the Nominee's hotel a small boy appeared carrying a Roosevelt placard. Several spectators grabbed for it. The urchin slipped behind a policeman, jeered: "It's a free country...
...Beverly, Mass., where he has a summer home, John Barry Ryan, son of the late Copperman Thomas Fortune Ryan, applied to the mayor for appointment as a special policeman...
...Haven, Conn., Policeman Michael F. Hally stopped Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for passing a red light in her automobile. Said she: ''I was watching the street car in front of me." Said he: "You wasn't watchin' nothing...