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Police beat back the rioters at the door of the French officers' club. But the cursing mob broke into a nearby movie theater jampacked with Moslem women, panicked them with stones and bullets, wounded several, killed a policeman and a boy before dispersing...
...push to topple the tyrant from power. At the height of the civil revolution, 17-year-old Joseph Wright (son of a U.S. father, a Salvadorian mother) was talking with friends on a street of strike-bound San Salvador. In obedience to a police command, they dispersed. But one policeman fired, killed Joseph instantly...
...then reviewed the steps leading up to Ward's refusal to obey the War Labor Board and sign a contract with the union. They had the right to refuse, the President said; sure, they had the right, just as any citizen has the right to tell a policeman who is going to arrest him that he doesn't want to go to jail. But the policeman has the right to take him there...
...always returns to the scene of his crime; that quicklime will liquidate a body (quicklime tends to preserve it); that surprise or fear may be fixed on a victim's face (death relaxes the muscles); that a bullet in the heart kills instantly (Dr. Snyder tells of a policeman who, after being shot through the heart, fired six shots at his murderer, walked across a street to his car before he died...
Shank of the Evening. In Kankakee, Ill., Police Chief Nelson put Sergeant Bert Luckey on regular duty so that he positively could not attend the annual policeman's ball. Last year the Sergeant's wooden leg broke under the pressure, spilled ball bearings and dancers all over the floor...