Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp Swedish cartoon last fortnight flayed the Jewish scientist's plight in Nazi-land. The cartoon showed two browbeaten Germans eyeing a burly lout in the Nazi uniform who was striding through a university hall. First citizen: "What is the policeman doing here?" Second citizen: "Sh, sh. That is the man selected to succeed Einstein...
...match for him. Smartest of them is a rowdy sob-sister (Alice White). When she flusters him, Cagney bluntly knocks her down. When a bereaved husband comes to shoot him he hides in the women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert Emmet O'Connor) visits the office, Cagney's tender instincts are released like a load of bricks. When he takes the girl home her father recognizes a once legitimate target and absentmindedly commences firing. Finally Cagney gets into trouble for smuggling a camera into an electrocution. He retires...
...Fewkes, advanced upon Chicago Title & Trust Co. which they knew holds in escrow $10,000,000 for tax payments of property owners. Leader Fewkes and a committee gained access to the bank's President Holman Pettibone. Meanwhile the teachers were trying to swarm upstairs past the guards. A policeman flourished his night stick. A teacher named Ted Farrington ducked, took a resounding blow on the neck instead of the head. He toppled and the crowd surged up to mob the guards. Women screamed, fainted. Windows crashed. Teachers hurled school books. A second teacher was supposed to have been clubbed...
...will be official host at the 1933 Fair decided to become an engineer when he watched surveyors laying out the World's Fair of 1893. Son of an Irish policeman, Ed Kelly had been apprenticed to an undertaker. In 1894 he got a job as axman in one of the surveying crews working on the drainage canal. He went to night school to learn his trade. In 1908 he was made engineer of the commission which laid out the Great Lakes-Mississippi waterway. Mayor until April 1935. he will not give up his presidency of the South Park Board...
...Somerville, N. J. last month Policeman Fred Sixt Jr. arrested his brother George for running down and killing a woman. Last week Policeman Sixt stopped a car, arrested its occupant for passing a red light, took him to court, saw his license suspended for three months. Defendant was Fred Sixt...