Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policeman who does not think such snidery sidesplitting is New York City's Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine. Commissioner Valentine asked: "Why do so many members of the force, when serving a summons, act as though the violation were a personal affront? The violator does not offend you, so why cuss them and bawl them out? I always avoid sarcasm because I always resented it when I was a patrolman and a superior officer directed...
...forced the Government to agree on a general debate this week, and introduced a motion of censure which will amount to the first vote of confidence in the Government to be held since the war's start. Even Government backers thought that this was a poor time to offend world Jewry...
...been throwing knives at Sweden's press, bludgeoning at Swedish officials to make them muzzle the newspapers. Prince Viktor zu Wied, German Minister in Stockholm, calls almost daily at the Swedish Foreign Office to complain about news stories, editorials, advertisements (even in remote provincial papers) that might offend delicate Nazi sensibilities...
Only trouble with this plot was that few pulp editors would offend their read ers with such horrendous fantasy. Mr. Hoover's answer to that one: it was no fantasy at all. Last weekend he and his G-Men rounded up the 18, jailed them in Manhattan, charged them with conspiracy against the U. S. Government. Chief among their prisoners were two active Christian Fronters, John F. Cassidy and William Gerald Bishop (whom Belgium and Great Britain had previously de ported). Their affiliations greatly embarrassed Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin, who is forever calling for "a Christian...