Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Goodell, Iowa, Farmer Albert Sheriff walked out among his herd of fine, fat swine. Three weeks ago, he could have got $27.50 a hundredweight for them; now hogs were down to $19.50. Said he: "I rode the market up and made money, and I'll ride it down. I think the break is good for the country...
When the home-town pottery plant closed down in 1927, little Scio, Ohio (it rhymes; pop. 1,450) began to die. When Lewis P. Reese, a rough-handed West Virginia pottery worker, scraped up $8,000 and bought the plant at a sheriff's sale one day in 1933, the town came to life again. Reese thought he knew how to save Scio; he was sure he could mass-produce teacups, saucers, plates, etc. for 5? apiece and compete with cheap Japanese chinaware...
Bowland called on Sheriff Jim Moreland of Catoosa County. The sheriff stroked his chin and said: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." He advised Bowland to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan...
Busybody. In Phoenix, Ariz., Francis Joseph Bressi, 23, walked into the sheriff's office, explained that he had married eight women, six of them bigamously, now wanted to be locked up "rather than jeopardize the happiness of more girls...
Example. In Auburn, Calif., County Sheriff E. J. Kenison was jailed for drunken driving for the second time in two weeks...