Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative and Market Master, smoking pistols in hand. After them dashed two policemen. City employes scurried for cover as bullets zipped through City Hall corridors and across the lawn to the Municipal Courts Building. When it was over the State Representative had four bullet holes in his legs, one policeman had three, the other policeman one and everybody concerned had a different story to tell...
...Banker Giovanni Morosini. aide to Garibaldi, art collector and onetime partner of Jay Gould; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. The elder Morosini left a museum-like Victorian mansion and an estate once estimated at $25,000,000 to his children, of whom Victoria married a coachman, Giulia a policeman. Amalia, an invalid since birth, survives...
Finding a sleek coupe-&-trailer parked on Riverside Drive late one rainy night, an indignant Manhattan policeman hammered on the trailer door, woke up North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, his campaign manager and his Negro cook & chauffeur. Ordered the policeman: "Move on." Sleepy Senator Reynolds, who is trying to prove that he can tour 9,000 miles of the U. S. at a cost of $100 per person, climbed out, drove to another street. Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent...
...fact that entirely too many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would if they were fishermen or golfers or chess players. He scoffs at the typical test for an operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street or backing into a parking space. Laboratory tests would compel the candidate to demonstrate ability to cope with all sorts of situations, would eliminate as factors...
Said Illinois' Governor Henry Horner after his policeman-chauffeur exceeded the State speed limit of 45 m.p.h. by as much as 25 m.p.h. on a trip from Joliet to Springfield: "I am still an advocate of sane speed laws, but the 45-mile limit merely serves as a check. Our speed . . . was not unsafe...