Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Two cops drove up, observed the proceedings and went into the caretaker's office to keep warm. Since the veterans were deserving 13th Ward boys, no 13th Ward politician was inclined to disturb them. In fact, a few precinct captains hurried around to help. Nobody interfered as the squatters...
Struggling with the terms of the Peace pact for Italy, the Council of Foreign Ministers spent three hours pinned down to the problem of who should have the authority to "call the cops" in the event of trouble in Trieste.
Last week, after A-C had again broken off negotiations, Local 248's President Robert Buse (a crony of many an avowed Communist in Wisconsin) tried a desperate maneuver. Violating a court injunction, he threw about 800 pickets in massed formation in front of some of the plant'...
It was the upset of the week. Twice-beaten Princeton slew Pennsylvania, the Goliath of the Ivy League, 17-14. After the game, elated Princeton rooters tried to carry away the goal posts, and had to be deterred by the cops (see cut).
The case of the dead composer looks like suicide, but Detective Raft knows better. First, his stubborn talk of murder gets him bounced from the Homicide Squad. Then his continued detecting, without pay, gets him shadowed by a sinister fat man, beaten up, involved with an enigmatic lady (Lynn Bari...