Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democrat Donnelly came out fighting against unionization of St. Louis' cops by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (A.F.L.), which has quietly but steadily organized police unions in more than 50 U.S. cities.*
Last October Richard Miller, a St. Louis motorcycle cop, returned from 30 months in the Navy and began to organize his colleagues. Within a few weeks he claimed 900 of the city's force of 1,900 as Federation members. Then St. Louis' Board of Police Commissioners (appointed...
Around Argentina's big marble Palacio del Congreso, Perón lined up 700 cops, then told the deputies inside to okay the Act of Chapultepec and the United Nations Charter. Grudgingly, the nationalist majority obeyed.
Like many a town with a war boom, Denver and its newspapers have been worried about how to meet the city's Johnny-come-latelys. One out of four Denverites (pop. 375,000), a recent poll showed, has arrived since 1940. A good many of them like to pelt...
Their story: one day an army officer reported that he was approached by a man who wanted to buy two grenades for "well-digging." In no time the cops claimed to have caught him handing the grenades to two torpedoes. They said the torpedoes confessed they had been hired to...