Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General Charles de Gaulle was in Ottawa last week. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King asked a favor: could he borrow Jacques Greber, inspector-general of city planning for France, and a world authority on garden architecture and public parks? De Gaulle agreed, and the Prime Minister called in reporters. He told them that Architect Greber would come to Canada at "the earliest sailing" to begin creating a beautiful national capital - a scheme that has long been one of the P.M.'s fondest dreams...
...Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi...
Horrible Tortures. The examination of the living witnesses was a rapid affair. First Police Inspector Enrico Morazzini confirmed what he wrote to the court some days ago. Judge Maroni interrupted: "There is no need to read it out. The description of the tortures is too horrible for decent people to hear." Then it was the turn of Cinema Producer Count Luchino, Visconti di Modrone, a witness for the defense...
...year-old third wife of his 53-year-old father, Hitler inherited his psychotic blue-green eyes, and probably his tendency to tantrums and his anemic artistic talent. From his father, who had risen by a lifetime's effort from a peasant to a petty customs inspector, Hitler probably inherited a toughness of character that was not so much strength as a persistent stubbornness in overcoming weakness...
...detained detonator, a marine inspector of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, became chief Nazi saboteur for Chile and Peru in 1939. Last month, when Chile took real steps toward war with Germany, he and his operatives glided into action with time bombs neatly plopped into the holds of nitrate ships. Their score to date: five ships fired, 102 lives taken...