Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characters (including Columnist Heywood Broun). A howling mob of 250 seized Stephen Kardos, a workman who failed to join the strike, dragged him from a taxi cab, beat him, stripped him naked except for necktie, shoes and socks and marched him through the shopping district. A lone middle-aged policeman won Kardos' release with: "Boys, wouldn't your sister or your mother be shocked by such a spectacle?" After two ugly days for Toledo, the son of a onetime President appeared on the scene-Charles P. Taft II, commissioned by the Department of Labor as mediator...
...behind C. Arthur Lyman, graduate of Hotchkiss and Williams, onetime Guardsman and Wartime artillery officer, now vice president of American Ball Co. The striker swung his bat and Special Officer Lyman went down on the cobblestones with a crushed skull, never to rise again (see cut). Another special policeman died of the beating he received. So cowed were Minneapolis businessmen, that by their request newspapers named none except the parsons who were present at Lyman's well attended funeral at swank St. Mark's Church. Then Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Olson stepped in again, won both...
With your "Robin Hood" policeman-killer glorifying article [TIME, May 7.1, the editor or editors of TIME may go to Hell with my compliments. There is no post office in Hell and 1 shall be pleased not to hear from...
...winters were long and old Jews remembered it as Russia's Devil's Island whither the Tsars sent Jews and terrorists before the Revolution. Soon European Jews heard the rumor that on the day Biro-Bidjan was declared a Jewish territory a Siberian tiger ate the only policeman in the region...
...Sing Sing, when a convict begged for news of his sick baby, prison authorities teletyped a query to Newark police headquarters. A motorcycle policeman sped to the convict's home. Back clicked his report to Sing Sing: "Baby recovering from mild case of measles. In no danger...