Word: garrett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, in the Augusteo Concert Hall built inside the ancient tomb of the Emperor Augustus, important listeners were her Majesty Queen Helena of Italy, Prince Boncompagni Ludovisi, Governor of Rome and U. S. Ambassador John Work Garrett. As it had in Paris, Zurich, Milan and Turin the press proclaimed the orchestra the greatest in existence, Toscanini the greatest of conductors...
...prime exhibit of "Bawdy Boston" (expose article in Plain Talk by Walter W. Liggett (TIME, Dec. 23) was Oliver Bridge Garrett, onetime "million-dollar cop" of the Boston police force, now a pensioner of Massachusetts taxpayers. Investigator Liggett reported that, with no visible income beyond his $40-a-week salary as head of the vice squad, Patrolman Garrett used to maintain a blooded-stock farm, a racing stable, a Cadillac, a Marmon, a Chrysler, a wardrobe of $150 tailored suits. Suddenly, last August, Patrolman Garrett was reduced to a pavement beat. Said Writer Liggett: "It is the belief of Boston...
Boston's police are directed by state, not city, officials. In February, the Massachusetts House of Representatives (accused of Wet parties in the Liggett article) voted to have State Attorney General Joseph E. Warner investigate the Garrett case. Last week to the legislature, and to Governor Frank G. Allen, the attorney general made his report. Verified and even expanded were Writer Liggett's charges and suspicions about Patrolman Garrett. Instead of suppressing bawdy houses, he sold them milk from his half-bootlegger-owned stock farm. Instead of raiding liquor joints, he ran a racket in them. Proprietors...
...Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson of Boston who received the full force of the attorney general's wrath. The commissioner had countenanced Garrett's conduct, even when warned by onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller; the commissioner had obtained Garrett's fraudulent pension...
...detachment of the Fascist blackshirt militia, nicknamed "Mussolini's Musketeers," mounted guard at the church as the wedding party swept up in eight automobiles. Among the few, distinguished guests who were allowed to squeeze into the small church, the U. S. was represented by Ambassador and Mrs. John W. Garrett, by enigmatic Mrs. Wurts...