Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Remy Leclerc, 62, Paris' only bearded traffic cop, to whose post at the busy Porte Saint-Denis devout tourists for years repaired in order to touch his long whiskers for luck; in Paris. A noted painter of old Paris, he once held a one-man show at the Police Salon...
Died. Senator Arturo Bocchini, 60, fat, unpublicized chief of Italy's police since 1926, "the man with a million eyes and a million ears," director of OVRA (Italy's Gestapo); in Rome. Cop Bocchini called on Mussolini at noon daily to report on public opinion; on such a call in 1935 was said to have given the answer which decided the Duce to send his troops into Ethiopia...
...rescued and passed through police lines by Secret Service operators. Steve Early got through one police line by showing his credentials with their engraved golden Presidential eagle. Before he could get to the train itself he was stopped by a police sergeant, flanked by one Irish and one Negro cop. They were under orders, once the President got aboard, to let no one approach the train...
...Negro vote would go. Manhattan newspapers published guarded interviews* with Patrolman Sloan, invalided to bed, in which he said that he had been kicked, that he felt terrible, and that he had been ordered not to talk. In Washington Steve Early denied that he had kicked a cop, admitted he had "given him the knee." Harlem's New York Age headlined: "Secretary of Pres. Roosevelt Kicks N. Y. Negro Policeman. "New York's Police Commissioner Valentine ordered an investigation. So did District Attorney Tom Dewey, out campaigning for Willkie. Protests and denunciations began to blister in the press...
...French declaration of war on Britain; cession of the French Fleet to Germany; occupation of free France by the Germans; replacement of Petain by such outright pro-Germans as French Fascist Jacques Doriot, Pierre Etienne Flandin (notorious for cabling Hitler congratulations after Munich), Marcel ("Die for Danzig?") Deat, Super-Cop Adrien Marquet; use of French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from the rear; peace drives...