Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force tax officials to open their records of tax abatements." This statement is unfair to Providence city officials whose tax records are open to any and all citizens. It was in nearby Pawtucket (pop. 81,000) that city officials used every legal and physical roadblock (including a uniformed policeman to bar reporters from city hall offices) in their attempt to block reporters from access to records...
...sent Chambers to cover a textile workers' demonstration in Passaic, N.J. The police were massed in force to keep the strikers from marching, but a slender girl rushed out before the cops could stop her. The demonstration surged after her. "Get that bitch in the brown beret!" a policeman shouted. Without flinching, she walked forward as the cops closed in, swinging their clubs. Led by the "bitch in the brown beret," the demonstrators swept right through the police. This was Chambers' first glimpse of Esther Shemitz, who since 1931 has been his wife...
...police were unnecessarily brutal, the CRIMSON has a right to protest. But it also has a duty to point out both sides of the issue--the tough job of a policeman attempting to maintain order among a bunch of fun-seeking students; the rights of the Cambridge citizen who may not be amused by Pogo or stalled busses; and the many dangers involved in a riot. I am writing this letter on Tuesday, and in all the articles and editorials on the riot (and the news articles all read like editorials), I have seen little else but violent recriminations...
...University was represented at the riot by only one policeman. Chief Randall himself, along with several Yard proctors...
...perhaps question the justification of a mass turnout of three or four thousand students (as was had on occasions), marching down Oxford and Regent Streets, across Piccadilly Circus and on through the center of London. This accompanied by "removing" of policeman's helmets, dousing them with water and other highly irregular actions--even pulling loose the trolley pole of trackless trolleys; an action which a student here now regrets...