Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee Ignatz Rewolinski, 250-Ib. policeman, was pushed through a window of a county food station, slightly cut, when a noonday breadline began to riot. Arrests...
...piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier. At daybreak in Huelva a sleepy police mannamed Joaquin Segovia was stopped by two cars, asked the way to Portugal. Officer Segovia raised his rifle. Without more ado General Sanjurjo hopped out of the first car, shook the policeman by the hand. "I congratulate you," said he. "With only a rifle you forced us to surrender." While General Sanjurjo was being taken to Madrid for trial by the Supreme Court, Premier Manuel Azana began retiring all officers suspected of complicity in the revolt. In frontier towns scores of escaping monarchists...
...After winning the middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling championship. Ivar Johansson, Swedish policeman, took a Turkish bath instead of attending his victory ceremonies. Then, 11 lb. lighter, he won the welterweight Graeco-Roman wrestling championship. Other Graeco-Roman champions were Finnish Vaino Kokkinen, who defended his 1928 middle-weight championship; Carl Westergren, Swedish bus-driver, who won the middleweight championship in 1920, the lightweight championship in 1924, the heavyweight championship last week. ¶ Gymnasts competed in the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Scores after five days' competition: Italy, 541.85; U. S., 522.275; Finland...
...Motor Co. in 1927; by drowning himself; in Chatham, Ont. His brother, Robert Cabel Graham, and a priest were taking him to the Loyola House of Retreat in Morristown, N. J. after sanitarium treatment for a nervous breakdown. He eluded them, leaped into McGregor Creek. Died. George Shinault, Washington policeman who killed William Hushka in the Bonus army riot (TIME, Aug. 8); of a bullet wound inflicted while breaking up a street fight; in Washington, D. C. Died, Dr. Graham Wallas, 74, sociologist, political scientist, author (Human Nature in Politics, The Great Society, The Art of Thought); in Cornwall, England...
Died. Ralph Leo Richards, 37, half-brother of Vincent Richards, professional tennis player; of a bullet fired by a policeman when Richards resisted arrest after a holdup; in Manhattan. Month ago Richards escaped from Eastview Penitentiary (TIME, July...