Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struggle with his own fate. It starts when Jean Valjean (Fredric March), represented as a deserving member of the Paris unemployed, is sentenced to the galleys for ten years for stealing a loaf of bread. There he first encounters Javert (Charles Laughton), the police inspector whose morbid fixation on the letter of the law makes him, as long as he lives, Valjean's Nemesis. When they meet again years later, Valjean is the beneficent mayor of a prosperous provincial town. But that makes no difference to Javert who ferrets out the secret of the mayor's past...
...Blyth, Ont., John Cowan got a job as police chief, street inspector, sanitary engineer, weed inspector, Memorial Hall caretaker, trusty clerk, liquor law enforcement officer, clerk of the weigh scales, school bellringer and Town Council handyman. Salary: $600 a year...
Even the more unlikely contingencies have been thought of and prevented. The Cambridge Building Inspector, in his eagerness to deserve well of his country, has zealously surveyed the foundations to allay all fears that a hidden weakness should precipitate the President and his encourage into the cellar...
Seniors in the Harvard Law School may be drafted into the United States Department of Justice this afternoon when Inspector Hugh H. Clegg, assistant director of the department, now on a trip to Boston, speaks to third-year men at 2 o'clock...
...good salaries, to roam over the hills in Wright and Howell Counties hunting for Indian mounds. After several weeks' search I asked if any mounds had been found, and the answer was, 'Nope; but we're still hunting for them.'... In another county a bedbug inspector was employed to inspect the mattresses which the relief agencies dealt out to those who would vote the straight Democratic ticket...