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...cop in front of the White House was in a gloomy mood. All day long, all night long, pickets of the American Peace Mobilization-always at least a dozen of them-paraded up & down before the White House. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the relentless pickets kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pickets Picketed | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Free. In Little Rock, a cop brought in a vagrant. "Who are you?" asked the desk sergeant. "I am a Free Frenchman," said the man. "You were a free Frenchman," corrected the sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Correspondent Young lived in Japan 13 years. He doesn't live there any more. One day in January 1940, Correspondent Young answered a smart rap on his door. Outside was a Japanese plain-clothes cop who invited him to visit police headquarters for a brief conversation. There the police took away Young's shoes. "You are not going anywhere," they said. To William T. Turner of the U.S. Embassy, who accompanied Young, they shouted: "The American Embassy people are fools. Get out of here!" But Jimmy Young did not get out for two months. Most of that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Japan As She Is | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sinner Emeritus | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...pair up to crack a bank vault for Christmas. They buy a tired Manhattan luggage shop next door to the bank and start tunneling. Obstructed by unwanted customers, garrulous neighbors, former penmates, they dynamite, not the vault, but a nearby cafeteria, while Santa Claus stuffs their stocking with a cop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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