Word: policemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soldiers, sailors, policemen cheered lustily, carried their former Chief off the parade ground on their shoulders. Later, the Colonel went to his campaign headquarters, a place filled with bodyguards, publicity men, secretaries, photographers and Latin spellbinders who are set to ballyhoo for Batista all over the island. Candidate Batista has been endorsed not only by the Nationalist, Liberal, National Democratic and Realist Parties, but also by Cuba's Communists...
Both sides continued to avoid calling the strike a strike. But when 57 Dodge foundry hands (mostly Negroes) went back to work at the Dodge plant, picketing strikers were angered, bricks flew (wounding two policemen and six Chrysler employes), and Mr. Thomas indignantly went through the motions of calling his unionists-who had marched in picket lines for 51 days-out "on strike...
...Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth undergraduate societies were rescinded by university authorities because he was under U. S. indictment for passport fraud. When Yale undergraduates also invited him, urbane President Charles Seymour said he would not interfere. His reason (laid down two years ago in his inaugural address): "The London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum...
...Prague, the Elite Guard garrison was raised to 10,000, the city placed under martial law. A terse communique soon announced the execution of three more Czechs, two of them policemen, "because of acts of violence against a German," which were not revealed. Czech Communists meanwhile stuck up in Prague during the night hammer-&-sickle posters advising Germans to "Clear out before Stalin comes...
...sister-in-law Estelle Montgomery. Cause: both claimed ownership of the house in which Booze and his family lived. Eugene Booze apparently won the argument last month: in an altercation over a court order forbidding her to enter the house, Estelle attacked Booze and two white State policemen with a butcher knife, was shot dead...