Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II, returned to Chicago as a bus driver and began mixing into politics. The 24th Ward was changing character. Negroes were crowding into the neighborhoods and Jews were moving out. Lewis got to know the newcomers; he had gone to work for the city as a housing inspector. More and more, as the South Side slums grew too oppressive for the Negro population, the 24th became their haven-and Lewis their leader. "Ev ery time that iron ball bats down one of those slum buildings on the South Side," Lewis said happily, "20 Negro families move west. Every...
Sanitation inspector Wilfred B. Krabek discovered the high count, 24 times the acceptable level, in a check of coliform colonies in tea last August. However, no official report of the discovery was filed until January...
...served in the University dining halls has been found to have a bacteria content comparable to "a one to ten dilution of the Charles River," according to a report on sanitation issued in January by sanitary inspector Wilfred B. Krabek...
...well-dressed, middle-aged man walked into a branch of Tokyo's Teikoku Bank wearing the armband of a municipal official. Claiming that he was a city health inspector, the man ordered the bank manager to summon all his employees so that he could give them a dose of antidysentery medicine. The employees gulped the potion, then collapsed in agony. From the open vaults, the medicine man grabbed about $185 in cash and disappeared into the street. Behind him, twelve people lay dead of cyanide poisoning...
...playing cards with them at the time of the robbery. Only two of the 40 eyewitnesses of the crime positively identified Hirasawa as the robber-and both were increasingly unsure as the trial wore on. The only clue pointing to Hirasawa was the calling card of the supposed health inspector, which the robber had left behind in the bank; handwriting experts determined that the writing on the back of the card was Hirasawa's. The painter never denied that he once had the card, but claimed that it had been stolen from him when his wallet was pickpocketed shortly...