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Forthwith, Mayor Dreier filed a $100,000 libel suit against the Independent for running an ad which pictured him as "unscrupulous, dishonest and corrupt." When Dreier's case against the Independent came to trial, the paper was ready for him. It put on the stand a cop who testified that he had paid Dreier $50 as a down payment for his job on the force. It also came out that city workers had fixed up the mayor's house with some $9,000 worth of improvements just before its tax assessment was reduced. Dreier's secretary stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reformer Reformed | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Three hours of hand-to-hand skirmishes and general disturbance ensued. A cop car suffered three deflated tires among other damage in the melee, but the authorities were able to scrounge up enough other vehicles to book 15, all of whom pleaded nolo the next...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Grim Police, Gay Students Battling Since 163 | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

...uproar at Yale began when a Good Humor man and an ice-cream vendor known as a Humpty-Dumpty man began squabbling over a choice parking place. A cop intervened, and students by the hundreds streamed into the street, where they spent two hours shooting firecrackers, waving banners, letting the air out of tires, and jeering at the cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Girls! Girls! Girls! | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Conditioned Reflex. In Melbourne, Australia, Thomas Joseph O'Shea was freed on a charge of insulting a policeman after he told the judge that his cough, and not the passing cop, had made him stick out his tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 26, 1952 | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...station. . .we went single file through a tunnel. Just as I got to a bend in the tunnel, someone asked me, 'You hurt bad sonny?' I turned around to answer him and I was whacked two times on the head, I don't know with what. Then another cop came up and told the other...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof and David L. Halberstam, S | Title: Witnesses Tell Council Of Police Favoritism in Melee | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

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