Word: crime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coops & Coups. At 30 Donaldson passed rigorous tests to join the select ranks of postal inspectors-the trusted men who safeguard the mails, protect the public from thefts and frauds, keep the service 99.9% honest. Postal inspection is the oldest and least publicized investigative and crime detection agency of the Government. Thoroughness and cold efficiency are its tenets. Donaldson served as an inspector in Kansas City for 17 years, sometimes as "the guy in the coop." (In large postoffices there are concealed, peep-holed galleries from 'which inspectors watch clerks and sorters suspected of mail thefts...
...going on, the Communist paper L'Humanité pushed out an extra with two-inch headlines in red ink: "Alerte! Ils Veulent Assassiner la République!" The paper screamed that "the American party tears up the constitution. . . . Workers, democrats, patriots, you have the strength to prevent the crime ordered by the exploiters and imperialists of New York." Pouncing quickly, M. Schuman charged L'Humanité with criminal incitation to revolt. Police invaded the newspaper's plant, smashed the plates...
...landscapes can best be painted as seen from the window of a speeding automobile. She sees to it that when he is painting a mural he actually gets to the wall and does not tarry somewhere along Juárez in an interesting discussion of the latest method of crime detection with the last policeman who arrested him. Then he is being Mexican to the core...
...city has 65,000 Negroes, 15% of the population. For whatever sociological or economic reasons, Negroes had generally been involved wherever the police could get a line on a crime. But to calm observers it seemed that the crime wave-if it was one-could be blamed on the police rather than on any racial group. The force has had four chiefs in five years. Its merit system doesn't work. There is lack of cooperation between the cops and the courts; hoodlums with long records walk the streets on low bail. One man even drove a truck...
Died. Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, 79, author of the everlasting, best-selling The Lodger (1913); in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, England. "Mrs. Belloc Lowndes," sister of Author Hilaire Belloc, was a trail blazer and old settler in psychological-crime mysteries, wrote more than 35 novels in 40 years, mostly about nice people with snarled-up psyches...