Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance collector, was coming down the stairs. He saw Ferguson, naked, reach out and seize little Lizzie, whisk her into his room, slam the door. Fox ran for a policeman. "You can't come in here!" Ferguson shouted to them. "Nobody can come in here but Jesus Christ...
...policeman burst Ferguson's door. He was in his bathroom. The tub was full, and in it was Lizzie Schneider. Ferguson was holding her under, drowning...
...policeman tried to tackle Ferguson, but the mad man, wet and slippery, kicked him away, kept his grip on the midget until she was dead. Fox got three more policemen; Ferguson fought them with chairs, a table, his teeth. They had not subdued him when, suddenly, he stopped fighting, fell dead of a heart attack...
...with a blast warning Congress to amend the new law. The Workers Alliance, whose membership is largely dependent on WPA, jumped for joy on the sidelines, being for once the prospective beneficiaries, though not the authors, of a revolt in WPA. Violence grew. In Minneapolis a policeman was killed in a row between pickets and nonstriking WPAsters. As skilled unionists walked out, WPA projects came to a halt and unskilled workers were idle willy-nilly...
...Omaha, Neb. the Dankowskes' trail ended. In the first accident it had ever had, the Nomad collided with a policeman's car. Mrs. Dankowske, both legs fractured, was rushed to the hospital. Last week she was dead...