Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faraday, battling in the thick of the mob, kept his policemen at their truncheon work until mobsters suddenly produced guns from beneath their robes. Ping went a bullet and a plugged policeman tumbled off his horse. Mr. Faraday then signaled to Mr. Crosbie for further instructions. Leaning out of his window Mr. Crosbie signaled back: "Police open fire...
...Denston's 82-year-old husband, a rickety old man with wens on his face, remarked: "She's all right now, I guess. . . . I guess they did a pretty good job." Near Philadelphia their son, William Denston, a motorcycle policeman of Lower Merion Township, showed reporters a piece of rope. "Yes," he said, "I was there. I'm satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize...
...behind the packed standees failed to salute the Storm Troop's swastika flag. Smack!-a uniformed Nazi edging the other way down the sidewalk bashed Mr. Velz on the mouth. Smack!-he bashed him again. U. S. Citizen Velz's lips and nose gushed blood. Spying a policeman, Mr. Velz cried, "Arrest this man-he hit me!" "You can appeal, if you like," shrugged the policeman, "to our police lieutenant on the corner." "Herr Leutnant!" spluttered Mr. Velz, but the officer cut him short. "You did not salute the flag? It is always advisable to give the Nazi...
...were set for the ball- throwing ceremony, the President asked, "Where's the ball?" White-crowned Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis slapped his pockets, looked hopefully at Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, who looked helplessly at John J. McGraw, vice president of the Giants, who frantically signalled a policeman. The policeman ran for a ball, tossed it to the President. Right arm upraised, President Roosevelt grinned for photographers, then sang out: "All right, here goes!" He tossed the ball among the Washington players who scrambled madly, big Heinie Manush leaping high to grab...
Excited Hoosiers who knew that ten long-term convicts had escaped day before from Indiana Penitentiary and kidnapped a sheriff, congratulated themselves on having tuned in on the capture. Many a policeman's wife telephoned headquarters to learn if her husband had been wounded. The sheriff of nearby Cook County. III. doubled his highway patrol. Indiana's Governor McNutt telephoned to learn what was happening. He was told that the whole thing was a fake...