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...dismayingly low percentage of college men in police work. Only a very few forces, including Los Angeles', require any higher education at all. Another is that more and more policemen have to moonlight to make ends meet?and in most cities are required to carry their guns off duty???as guards or cabbies. This can itself provoke violence. Arguing in a New York traffic tie-up last week, one off-duty cop shot another and was, in turn, shot by a third. Result: one dead, one seriously wounded...
...Ulysses S. Grant said: "I am not nor have I ever been a candidate for renomination. I would not accept a nomination if it were tendered, unless it should come under such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty???circumstances not likely to arise...
...Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison was advanced. He will succeed Admiral Robert E. Coontz after the return of the fleet from its cruise to Australia. Then Admiral Coontz will have leave of absence, and will be assigned to other duty???probably with the General Board of the Navy. Admiral S. S. Robison (not to be confused with Admiral J. K. Robison?see below) has been Commander of the Battle Fleet. A man of 58, he commanded at one time or another, the Cincinnati, Jupiter, South Carolina. During the War, he commanded the Submarine...
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