Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City which is called The Bronx, sprawls the low brick structure of a fur dyeing factory, broad, ugly, busy. Beside it runs an alley full of old machinery. Into this alley one afternoon last week drove the factory manager with a $4,619 payroll, guarded by a policeman. Two youths stepped up to the car with drawn automatic pistols. One covered the manager, forced him out of the car, took the payroll. The other sent a bullet through the policeman's shield into his heart...
...sped through East 133rd Street to St. Ann's Avenue, turned north, and continued un challenged, stared at by dwellers of the shabby neighborhood. At 149th Street they abandoned the car, changed to a taxicab, turned into Boston Post Road. At 169th Street a motorcycle policeman opened fire on them. He fell mortally wounded. A fireman picked up the police man's revolver. He, too, was shot down. Another fireman, out driving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, came into range. All were wounded, the child fatally. Bul lets struck three passersby...
Darkness fell, the crowds stayed, still growing. As tenseness increased an immaculate young man with a monocle in his eye, yellow gloves and tight rolled umbrella firmly gripped in his hand, inspected the crowd with amazement and standing next to a United Press correspondent, hailed a policeman...
...police chiefs to plan a revolutionary move, the arming of London's bobbies. Ever since their organizer, Sir Robert Peel, lent his nickname to the London Police, they have carried nothing more formidable than a short wooden truncheon. Last week the tradition of the incorruptible, unarmed British policeman (like the tradition of the invulnerable Bank of England) trembled in the balance. Twenty-five bobbies were up on charges of accepting bribes from publicans, bookmakers, and tradespeople...
...worked his way through Yale as a telephone operator and is now a student at Yale's law school, wanted a swim. He and a crony who works for an undertaker went to Maltby Lake Reservoir, near West Haven, Conn., took off their clothes, jumped in. A policeman caught them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis is a Moose, Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine and the Grotto...