Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eared, tobacco-chewing County Judge Willie Bob Howard set the stage for Metcalfe's brief career as a cop. The judge took drastic steps to enforce the law. The ancient Cawood clan, which dominated the county, was cool to his kind of law enforcement. Sheriff Jim Cawood couldn't seem to find many bootleggers, and most of those got off. County Attorney Bert Howard and Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith were Cawood adherents. So was Circuit Judge Jim Forester: Judge Willie Bob's convictions were regularly reversed in Jim Forester's court...
Judge Willie Bob took a daring step: he organized a county police force to compete with the sheriff's office. Big, mean, 29-year-old Ambrose Metcalfe, who had served as a sergeant in an armored division during World War II, became its captain. He swaggered out to "throw the fear of God" into Harlan County...
...Score. In La Fayette, Ga., Donald Williams Crider, arrested on a charge of bigamy, told the sheriff he had no idea how many wives he had, because "I don't know how many times I got drunk...
...young Eastern lawyer (John Payne) who has trouble telling right from wrong. Payne, just back from the Civil War, arrives in El Paso in search of his sweetheart (Gail Russell) and finds the town in the grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking the law into his own hands). Before finally arriving...
...There Is Any Doubt. But in a contract between nations, said Acheson, there is no sheriff sitting up in the clouds who is going to come down and see the contract carried out. Nobody could force us to carry out our contract, but we would do what we had contracted to do. If there was an attack, the decisions on what the U.S. would have to do would be made under constitutional procedures...