Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Casually passing in the East River was Customs patrol-boat 546, John Beach commanding. To him it seemed a strange time for garbagemen to be at work. Quietly he ordered his five men to dock their craft, disembark, surround the scene of activity. When one of the big trucks started to leave, out from hiding jumped Officer Beach, fired a shot in the air, precipitated a scuffle which netted the U. S. 22 prisoners, a score of knives & pistols, $60,000 of bourbon whiskey and champagne...
...Remainder of Denmark's navy-in-miniature: five fishing patrol vessels, 20 torpedo boats, 14 submarines, one depot ship, one minelayer...
...Dawn Patrol (First National). People who are amused at the way rival producers imitate each other's masterpieces, do not always realize the salutary effect of this convention of plagiarism on the industry at large. Undoubtedly The Dawn Patrol was influenced, even frankly inspired, by Journey's End. Undoubtedly also it is a better picture, because its devisers have stuck to their model, than it would have been if they had depended on independent inspiration. It is a War picture dealing with aviators, but the usual framework of such efforts has been drawn into a tense believable story...
...Garrett was reduced to a pavement beat. Said Writer Liggett: "It is the belief of Boston newspaper reporters that Garrett was 'bagman' for certain higher-ups who finally got rid of him because they were not satisfied with their percentage of the split." Patrolman Garrett refused to patrol, asked a vacation, got it. Returning, he asked retirement with a pension; he said his skull had been cracked on duty. He was retired, pensioned. Writer Liggett suggested the skullcracking might have occurred at a racetrack accident when Garrett was driving a horse that belonged to a bootlegger friend...
...Langdell Hall at the Law School there will be an argument of a claim brought by the Dominion of Canada against the United States based on the sinking of the "I'm Alone". The "I'm Alone" is famous as being the rum runner chased by a United States patrol beat which took up the chase inside the international limit and continued it outside into the high seas...