Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought that, more or less unnoticed in the general hustle, they could elect "Tubbo" Gilbert sheriff of Cook County. That was before Tubbo's Republican rival, one John E. Babb, got busy and Chicago newspapers took a scandalized second look at the amazing career of 200-lb. Policeman Tubbo...
...agreed that the profiteering food sellers should be rooted out and recommended a stern course of direct action. All the buyer had to do was call a policeman and the profiteer would be jailed in the Villa Devoto. Said Perón: "We shall close down for good all shops of all profiteers so that in the future only honest traders will be in business...
...matter is the clearly unsatisfactory traffic control at the intersection of Cambridge, Kirkland and Broadway streets (in front of Littauer and Phillips Brooks House). With crowded traffic, crossing that intersection is indeed a terrifying and dangerous experience. While a policeman is stationed there sometimes, he is absent at other times when he is really needed. Perhaps the answer is a pedestrian push-button traffic light or perhaps longer hours for the policeman...
Several times this summer the policeman inside the green box has been severely injured when the tower was run into. Last year, during Cambridge's attempt to circle the Square, the box was inactive. After this work failed, the box was put back into service, late this summer...
...motorist spotted the wounded policeman and took him to the Conway hospital, 19 miles from Myrtle Beach. There he died. Next day, city, county and state police refused to say a word; but the case was too hot to hush. As newspapers began digging into the story, Myrtle Beach's tourist-conscious resort owners wrung their hands over the threat to their trade...