Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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AWOL. In Thessalon, Ont., after worrying over their missing police chief for a week, the town council decided to fire him for neglecting his duties...
Police guessed that he might have stolen $600,000 in three years. Said Beverly Hills' Police Chief Clinton Anderson with admiration: ". . . One of the greatest burglars who ever operated...
...honest confession on behalf of higher brass, Colonel George S. Eyster, deputy chief of the Army Public Information Division, called the whole thing a "faux pas." Said the colonel: the report had been "improperly edited," and should never have been put out "with the philosophy that Americans might well look askance at their neighbors." The Army, he said, had no evidence of spying by Stein or Miss Smedley, and it was not a U.S. policy to "tar and feather people without proof." Journalist Smedley said she was grateful, but added: ". . . the retraction rarely catches up with...
...face of all this uproar many a police chief just decided to sit back and wait for the pyramids to collapse of themselves-an amateur mathematician figured it would take 16,777,216 players to keep a club going for 25 days...
Library techniques have come so close to perfection in Lamont that the smaller problems, formerly overlooked in the confusion of Widener, have become irksome. Chief among these is the delay in getting course books processed for use at the beginning of each term. Even now, many books are unavailable...