Word: nightsticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrong Approach. In Denver, Hotel Desk Clerk Mrs. Burnace Hadley, 49, hit an armed robber on the head with a nightstick, made a direct hit on him with a vacuum bottle as he stepped back, rapped him on the fingers with the club when he made a last grab for the hotel's money, explained to police after he fled: "He made me mad with his brashness...
...back. And then maybe the billy-swinging cops will think back to the days when they broke heads to stop a good-humored crowd, and wonder if it was the single answer. For they will find no friendly crowd, but a surly one, expecting the fight, and then the nightstick will be the only...
Friends of the students said both policemen ran after him and caught him, and, after pinning him on the ground, one knocked him unconscious with his nightstick. The other student approached the two policemen and asked to go to the station with his friend. He, too, was seized and held against a wall until a paddy wagon arrived...
...When nightstick-wielding cops broke up the Communist "peace" rally in Manhattan's Union Square three weeks ago, New York Post Editor James Wechsler sounded off. Onetime Communist Wechsler, now a member in good standing of the anti-Communist left, criticized the other New York newspapers for their news stories and editorials on the riot, accused them of condoning "the savagery exhibited by some police officers." Wrote Wechsler: "The claim that the initial [police] ban-and the ensuing violence-were justified because the Communists support Russian aggression in Korea is dangerous doctrine . . . Communist talk is less menacing than curtailment...