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Schemer. In Philadelphia a policeman's berth is rapidly becoming a mare's nest. Mayor Harry A. Mackey, who has hitherto expressed many wishes to be of more momentous service to District Attorney Monaghan, gloated over a choice scheme. He ordered a complete transfer of the city police. About 4,800 officers found themselves detailed to new precincts. The order came suddenly; no policeman knew beforehand to what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...have a lot of horse-doctors among your readers. Call a horse a mare, once in a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Your subscriber is always prepared to accept TIME's statements at face value, but he did think he knew a horse from a mare. Of course California and Luther Burbank have produced many wonders, but-well, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Apropos of that caballero and equestrian tycoon, William Gibbs McAdoo, recently depicted with Mexican accoutrements en grande tenue, and set forth as mounting, "up onto a prancing mare," (TIME, Aug. 20), kindly permit the following correction; -"Hell! that aint no mare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

TIME'S political correspondent, no horseman, was misled; but is now able to state definitely that Mr. McAdoo was mounted upon Joaquin, an animal owned by Dwight Murphy of Santa Barbara. Joaquin, no mare, is a gelding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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