Word: patroller
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...picketing," John Farmer went out on the highways to turn back city-bound shipments of foodstuffs. Iowa, seat of the Farmers Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called out militiamen to help patrol highways in the western part of his State. Veterans of last spring's milk war in Wisconsin outdid their lowan colleagues in violence. Ten thousand pounds of milk were dumped from the vats of a Milan cheese factory; more than 100 other cheese factories and creameries closed voluntarily throughout...
...long-term convicts had escaped day before from Indiana Penitentiary and kidnapped a sheriff, congratulated themselves on having tuned in on the capture. Many a policeman's wife telephoned headquarters to learn if her husband had been wounded. The sheriff of nearby Cook County. III. doubled his highway patrol. Indiana's Governor McNutt telephoned to learn what was happening. He was told that the whole thing was a fake...
...clear windless night last week when the temperature hovered near freezing, an airplane skimmed back & forth, back & forth across a lowland field in eastern Wisconsin. From midnight until 5 a. m. the plane continued its lonely patrol at loo ft. altitude, barely missing the tamarack trees bordering the field. At dawn it flew away, to return another chill, cloudless night...
...warships" in the Caribbean. He explained that, except for the Mississippi and Richmond, all the vessels in Cuban waters were "little bits of things," incapable of landing a force sufficient to occupy the island. He pointed out that Cuba is 700 mi. long, that many ships were needed to patrol its shore line. No force had been put ashore and none would be unless serious disorders developed. Cuba, he insisted, presented a special case under the Platt Amendment and was by no means to be taken as the keynote of his whole Latin-American policy...
...they might shoot themselves by 3 p. m. or be turned out. For an hour expectant crowds packed the sidewalks. As they waited listening for the four shots their bloodlust cooled. At 3 p. m. the four policemen, who still had not shot themselves, were driven off in a patrol wagon to Cabana Fortress. Meanwhile mobsters were on their wav out to the Machado estate where they butchered prize cattle, held a barbecue. Havana continued in turmoil...