Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their first client, a backsliding policeman who once owed well over a year's salary and was about to lose his job, paid off his last nickel. For services to him - and up wards of 700 clients - Purdy & Rouse netted about $15,000 last year. Although the system is no sure cure for spendthrifts, Purdy & Rouse are pleased that 75% of those who take the cure, stay cured. Why debtors come to C.A.C. instead of trying to puzzle their way out of their tangles is simply explained by Purdy: "It's always easier to take someone else...
...York City's Harlem, Negro capital of the U.S., a white policeman arrested a Negro woman for disorderly conduct. A Negro soldier, on leave, tried to stop him. Both went to the hospital, the policeman with a battered head, the soldier with a pistol wound in the shoulder. The story, much garbled, spread quickly through Harlem...
Gleam. In Springfield, Ill., Policeman George Ford was bothered by bees swarming at the busiest corner in town. Then a young woman gave him her mirror and a method. He sent a flash into the swarm, swung it to a nearby wall. The bees followed the gleam...
Strains of "Waves of the Navy, there's a ship sailing down the bay--", the policeman waiting at Shepard Street, and suddenly more numerous blue uniforms at Harvard Square indicated the arrival of a new class of BuSandA students...
...Policeman held up his hand and the cars stopped. Although Billy was usually polite, he stared and stared! He had never seen a colored policeman. 'Mother,' Billy called, 'Look at the brown policeman.' 'Yes,' said Mother, 'there are many brown policemen. In our country we have many kinds of helpers.' Just then the policeman waves his hand for the cars to move on. Then Billy and Jack did have an exciting time. They were looking for more brown policemen...