Word: monaghan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan assigned 20 detectives to the case. Within 48 hours he proudly called newsmen, produced most of the loot, and the robbers, who turned out to be anything but professional. They were unemployed hoodlums, of the variety who are called "sharpies" and who wear a uniform-peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties, tight blue topcoats. The ringleader was Joseph ("The Blimp") Paladino, 24. His accomplices: Joseph ("Jo-Jo") Guidice, 20, and Carmine ("Zoc") Zoccolillo, 21, also known as "Toothy" because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan...
...GREAT RASCAL (353 pp.) -Jay Monaghan-Little, Brown...
...hundred thousand knows the name of the remarkable, gnomelike promoter without whom Buffalo Bill would never have existed. The Great Rascal is Ned Buntline's first full-dress biography, and the galloping glitter of his career more than makes up for the limping prose in which Author Monaghan describes...
Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan had a decisive reply to Mike Quill: he issued an order forbidding policemen to join labor unions. A policeman, like a soldier, may not strike, cannot give even part of his loyalty to a union. Union cops, he pointed out, could hardly be expected to police strikes by brother unionists...
Quill, who claimed that 4,800 policemen had joined and another 5,000 had "pledged," met the order with characteristic language: "His [Monaghan's] 'I-am-the-law' order is intended to chain New York's 'finest' to their intolerable working conditions, low wages and long hours, through Iron Curtain tactics. It betrays an utter lack of confidence in the integrity of New York's policemen, who deeply and bitterly resent the coercive threats of this stumbling, petty dictator." Then he rushed the roster of his union out of the state so that...