Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after his release, this virtuous man is mercilessly hounded by Police Inspector Javert. At the summit of every achievement, Valjean is forced to flee from the scene of his good work by the appearance of this symbol of lawful duty, this relentless fury. In the end, he saves his oppressor's life...
...shocked the British Government so deeply that it despatched the battleships and sent a note declaring that the whole affair must be a "misunderstanding." Why should the independent Kingdom of Egypt want an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief, when Spinks Pasha is fulfilling that office, with the title of Inspector-General...
...Inspector-General of the Egyptian Army...
Died. Major William E. Cochran, 74, onetime Chief Inspector of the Post Office Department; at Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1894, when Coxey's Army marched from the West to Washington, D. C., 352 men seized a passenger train in Kansas, ran wild with it. Major Cochran and his guards captured the lot, marched them to jail. The pursuit, arrest and conviction of Gerald Chapman and "Dutch" Anderson, famed mail robbers, was directed...
...local Government inspector, J. M. Carey, approached, hat in hand, spoke in low voice to the Premier. The mine was full of poisonous gasses. Rescue work, even in gas masks, was too dangerous. The inspector had ordered that no one should go down in the mine until the fumes of explosion should be pumped away by the electric ventilators. Any other course was madness, said Inspector Carey, but the wives and families of the entrapped men were getting restless. He could not conscientiously advise the Premier to remain with his wife in that vicinity...