Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks before the hour of his death, "Paddy" Car smiled the smile of a big and happy Irishman, as he listened to the returns that elected him Sheriff of Cook County (Chicago) by a plurality of 125,000, the largest given to any Democrat on the ticket. And then suddenly his smile twisted into agony-sharp, devastating pain arose within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover...
Died. Patrick J. ("Paddy") Carr, 46, sheriff-elect of Cook County (Chicago); of ulcers of the stomach...
...seems that the sheriff of Aiken, one Nollie Robinson, and the jailer had not fought the lynchers who had come for the three Negroes (as originally reported), but had, according to testimony of other prisoners, helped take the Negroes out of jail. The unearthing of this story was attributed to Walter White, Negro, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The exuberant journalism of Editor Swope pushed the issue to the doorstep of Governor Thomas G. McLeod. The World reporter gave it wide publicity and helped bring about an investigation of Sheriff Robinson's alleged offense...
...first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected to succeed herself, having polled a vote double that of her two opponents...
...love: one must deal with the questions: "What did he do for us? If he had not lived and behaved so, wherein would our life be different?" And such profit and loss statements have their absorbing interest, even if their appearance may be a sign that humanity sees the sheriff approaching to seal up the door...