Word: policewomen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Protector. In Berlin, policewomen recommend to girls a device invented by one Emil Pruess. Not to all girls, but to nice girls, above all to nice girls who are pretty. It is called in German, the "Anti-Masher." A nice girl, imperiled, perhaps disastrously, presses against her assailant's body an induction coil attached to the Pruess Battery, which she carries concealed under her dress. Low amperage of 1,000 volts destroys consciousness...
...both sexes, to the round number of 5,000. They represented the National Federation of Settlements, the National Probation Association, the National Association of Travelers Aid Societies, the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, the National Conference on Social Service of the Episcopal Church, the International Association of Policewomen, and scores and scores of others. They swarmed in Cleveland's public meeting places and hotels, coming together after a series of individual meetings as the National Conference of Social Work, "largest convention of its kind in history...
Said Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, chief of policewomen: "That tom-tommy sort of Oriental music that makes men forget home and babies...
...Policewomen. The parents and teachers declared themselves abettors of all legislation leading to the substitution of policewomen for policemen in handling female delinquents...