Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death on Corregidor in the spring of 1942, Joseph Fain of Independence, Mo. reacted just like thousands of other fathers-he kept a stiff upper lip, comforted his wife and went on about his business as if nothing had happened. Fain prospered: he had been a policeman, then a member of an Independence Municipal Light Department line crew; after his son's death, he started his own electrical shop and did well...
Braced by a policeman's arm, Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadeq tottered from the conference room in Teheran's Saheb Gharanieh Palace. To waiting newsmen he gasped: "No result-it's all over." Behind him trailed the U.S.'s W. Averell Harriman, tired and glum, and Britain's chief negotiator, Richard Stokes, who said: "I have no alternative but to regard the talks as suspended and to go home...
...hung there," he went on stolidly. "When a policeman arrived this nig's tongue was hanging out. His face was yellow. The policeman said if we left him another five minutes he'd be dead. I said, 'Ag, man, then you'll charge me with killing a coon.' He said he wouldn't and only the two of us would know...
...arrive in cars, nearly always late at night. They break into houses at random, demand "passes" (all Negroes must carry passes to prove they are employed by whites), and turn the houses upside down, looking for liquor. The armed police go in constant danger of their lives. A white policeman's wife writes: "It is no joke to lie awake at night and wonder if one's husband will come back safely in the morning." Of all whites, the police are most hated by the blacks. Next come the Pass Office officials, then the state-employed railwaymen. These...
Black & White Justice. Cases of assaults by white police on black prisoners are numerous. There have also been cases of torture. In one recent case in which the victim died, the policeman responsible was told he had shown "too much zeal." White murderers (except for poisoners) are seldom hanged. A man who shot another in cold blood and then tried to burn the body got four years. But a Negro who stole some cows got eleven years' hard labor. This month, seven white youths who beat an old Negro to death (because a friend of the Negro...