Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been since the collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator and like most European dictators has the indispensable qualification of being a peasant. Last week Batista showed the peasantry in his blood as never before...
...over to her, together with a royal housekeeper named Mrs. Mason. Also transferred to the King's favorite were the King's crack chauffeur, George Ladbrooke, complete with a discreet black Canadian Buick sedan and the King's personal bodyguard of many years, 200 lb. Chief Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard...
Promoter Rankin, according to Prosecutor Ferguson, also made a deal with Inspector William Byrne of the California State Board of Medical Examiners, who police the practice of medicine in that State. His job for Mr. Rankin, declared the prosecutor last week, was to compel California abortionists who did a good business to subjugate themselves to Rankin dominance or get out of business...
Handsome, dapper Inspector Howard W. Nugent of the State Police at Hawthorne had a good friend in nearby Chappaqua named Frederic Victor Guinzburg who is a sculptor. Fred Guinzburg, whose wife studied psychiatry, psychology and anatomy for years before she took up lithography as a profession, went around to the country clubbish State Police barracks at Hawthorne to see what he could do with the rotting mass of flesh and bone that was once a human being...
...investigator named Caryl Fenton (Constance Cummings) drags him away to look for some lost jewels in Scotland. When the train is wrecked on the way, Harwood discovers the missing body in the wreckage, shrewdly suspects that the wreck was intentional to hide the murder. He bets the French police inspector on the scene $5.000 that he will find the criminal. There follows, as in The Thirty-Nine Steps, a series of extraordinary adventures, with two more train wrecks, a half-dozen murders, shots in the night, rough & tumble fights, many a comically dangerous interview...