Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendly, mild-mannered, solid Homer Ferguson was just another circuit judge until 1939. Then a woman "numbers" operator, jilted by her policeman lover, left a suicide note which uncorked a bad smell in Detroit's police department. Judge Ferguson was assigned to sit as a one-man grand jury to investigate the smell...
...their staff, but they would also assert their displeasure in no uncertain terms. The driver of a Social Justice truck, Joseph McDonald, kicked to pieces Traveler photographer Hansen's camera when he tried to take a picture of a newsboy handing out the magazine. Hansen asserts that a Boston policeman held him while McDonald kicked, and it is definitely known that the officer witnessed the destruction...
...away with it under the eyes of the law--the situation is alarming. The Hansen incident and his attacker's sources of support, both on and off the scene, show that Social Justice is clearly seditious. When Biddle relieved the postman he certainly did not intend a policeman to take up the task...
...remarked that she was making very good money in munitions and would like to see the war go on for a long time. A middle-aged woman across the aisle hauled off and socked her. The sockee demanded that the conductor stop the bus and get a policeman. When the policeman asked the other passengers what the disturbance was, nobody on the bus had noticed a thing...
Pasadena's Rose Bowl looked like a second-hand auto park. In the chill dawn, 140 battered cars and sagging trucks huddled, piled high with furniture, bundles, gardening tools. At 6:30 a.m. they chuffed and spluttered, wheeled into line, and started rolling. Led by a goggled policeman on a motorcycle, a jeep and three command cars full of newsmen, they headed for the dark, towering mountains to the east...