Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Policeman Kennedy, on the other hand, is against gangs, period. He makes no distinction between boppers and defensives. Two summers ago, after the Youth Board arranged a cool and helped allot turf to Lower East Side Puerto Ricans and Negroes who had shot up two youngsters in a rumble, the commissioner passed on a pointed order to his department: "You shall not enter into treaties, concordats, compacts or agreements of appeasement. You shall meet violence with sufficient force, legally applied, to bring violators to justice. Every man, woman and child has the right to use the streets of this city...
Individual Responsibility. Kennedy argues that such critics misunderstand the policeman's role. And he is angrily suspicious that sometimes they do not even understand their own. Says he: "They say some young punk is 'the product of his environment.' Well, who isn't? They say 'He suffered a traumatic experience in his youth.' Well, most of us have. They say 'He's the victim of a broken home.' Well, there are lots of kids from broken homes who didn't become vengeful and take it out on someone else...
Bobbery. In London, the House of Commons passed a bill under which the fine for insulting a policeman is raised from...
...favorite Americans, Mark Twain, in Hannibal, Mo. So taken was Goriaev by Huckleberry Finn's adventures on the Mississippi that he ran away from home at the age of eleven and briefly floated down the Dnieper on a raft. Goriaev, who has drawn the Statue of Liberty wearing policeman's boots and carrying a club marked Racism and Segregation, illustrated Russian editions of both Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer...
...courtrooms, classrooms and club meetings. On a train bound for Manhattan, Veteran Washington Attorney John Lord O'Brian opened his briefcase, took out the notes he had dictated for his Law Day speech. In St. Louis, a Negro law student named John Alexander Madison and a Negro policeman named Dred Scott Madison studied their parts for the Law Day re-enactment of the historic trial of their great-grandfather, Dred Scott.* In Seattle, Attorney Ford Elvidge was "digging into books I haven't cracked in 40 years," looking up English legal history for his Law Day speech...