Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Actress O'Neill's dismay, Chief Constable Wensley had announced his resignation just before her loss was discovered. The coincidence suggested a new plot to detective-story authors, but to her it just seemed jolly bad luck. Able though his assistants and successors might be, it would have been a lark to have one's jewels found, one's would-be poisoner apprehended, by the greatest Sherlock of them...
...Aged 64, Chief Constable Wensley has been on the Force for 42 years. He joined it as an ordinary "bobby." He has left his mark upon the Chinese dens of Limehouse. the anarchists' haunts and crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no gun (London "bobbies," the world's best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found...
...enchantress of besieged Bethulia; Holofernes, the lusty besieger, whom she beguiles and then beheads; Haggith, Judith's maid, who smuggles the bloody head into the town; Achior, lieutenant of Holofernes who is bound to a stake, and released by Judith, for his disinclination to storm Bethulia; Bagoas, the chief eunuch, who is captivated by Judith's beauty but fears her designs. The Goossens music for these parts is oriental, sultry, sufficiently comprehensive to win staid London's loud applause. The last new Judith, by Composer Arthur Honegger, created, with its experimental dissonances, a minor critical furore...
Propaganda. For many a month N. E. A. members have waited for their association's formal statement about propaganda in the schools. Chief alleged propagandizers: public utility corporations, which have been accused of bribing teachers, changing text books to make private ownership of such utilities seem desirable to students, future voters. Last November, the N. E. A. appointed a committee to investigate. Last week the committee's chairman, Philadelphia Superintendent of Schools Edwin Cornelius Broome. reported that "efforts are being made from a wide variety of sources to advertise commercial products, advance special interests, and to propagate particular...
...members something new to think about. For years the N. E. A. has advocated the establishment of a U. S. Department of Education with a representative in the Cabinet. How much more likely, wondered observers, would the Government be to "dictate" in educational matters if the chief Federal pedagog were raised from, the lowly rank of Commissioner to be a full-fledged Secretary...