Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year of an "indirect" violation of the Volstead Act for which he was fined $100. Rather than pay the fine he languished in jail, the while appealing to the White House. Last week President Hoover granted him a full pardon, remitted his fine, because he had been a good policeman for 20 years...
...Chicago's skyscrapers, waves his arms and says, 'I did it all!' . . . An Eskimo at the North Pole might as well have been mayor ; while he was in Chicago his head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever see a shambling imbecile whose dis eased brain didn't defend its lunacy by snarling at others? To refer to him as a blubbering charlatan perhaps is charitable. Even a lunatic may not be charged with complete mental bankruptcy...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Policeman Jacob Rosenthal pursued five youthful automobile thieves, fired a shot into the back window of their automobile. It swerved to a curb, stopped. Two lads alighted, ran off. In the back seat Policeman Rosenthal found Dominic Imperato and Joseph Mazzola wriggling, struggling, gripped by the death-locked arms of Joseph Romano...
...qualify as an industrial policeman the law stipulates that a man be a citizen of the State, furnish a $2,000 bond, convince the Governor's office that he is of good character. However, the Governor is empowered to withdraw these commissions at any time without necessity of explanation...
...Last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a warder from a Venezuelan leprosy settlement was horrified to discover an escaped case-of-leprosy who had somehow got himself sworn in as a policeman, was handling holiday crowds...