Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he took offense at a natty, well-manicured prisoner in the police lineup, issued a famous order to the 200 detectives present: "He's the best-dressed man in this room. . . . Don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar." Under Valentine (and, of course, with the help of LaGuardia and Tom Dewey) the slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white-slavers, "popes and rabbis" (meddling politicians) were largely driven out or undercover. New Yorkers boasted, for the first time in memory, of the most honest police force...
...cadet, Eichelberger, son of an Urbana (Ohio) lawyer, seemed to have an easy time at studies: maybe it was because he had already put in two years at Ohio State. The Howitzer labeled him "divinely tall and most divinely fair" and his wife, whom he calls Miss Em, still quotes it, remembering the second lieutenant who proposed to her 34 years ago in the Canal zone the first evening...
...Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, weeks after V-J day, was still in a Jap spy chase on a Pacific island, but agile Artist Caniff already has figured a way to keep 'em flying: Colonel "Flip" Corkin will organize an. air police team to patrol Jap waters...
Editor's Note: Give 'em that old time religion...
Around the President in Washington, and over the Allied world, a great debate raged. A doughface in the Philippines yelled: "Let 'em keep their Emperor-I'll throw in a pair of pants!" Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, who had said that he would like to hang Hirohito and ride his white horse through ruined Tokyo, bellowed "No!" when asked if he had changed his opinion. Senators divided-"Execute him . . . Keep him." Suddenly, the Imperial issue was the issue of the Pacific peace. Upon it, the life or death of many men was about to turn...