Word: pinkertons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allsop's well-researched study-a matching piece to his earlier book, The Bootleggers-often seems as rambling as its subject. Like its heroes, it travels at a leisurely pace. But by and large, its heroes are amiable men to travel with. Even the self-righteous Allan Pinkerton, whose railroad detectives were the bane of post-Civil War hoboes, was a tramp once himself, and he never quite got over it. While the Pinks were running down the men they called "miserable communistic outcasts," Pinkerton himself felt compelled to confess "an irrepressible impulse to go a-tramping" again...
Boards cover every street-level window in the four-story building. Armed Pinkerton men guard every entrance. A 12-ft.-high fence has been thrown up around the parking lots. Two police cars stand by in case of trouble. Guards check the passes of everyone entering and leaving the building. No one goes out for lunch; sandwiches are brought in by an industrial caterer...
...prof" in a campus-wide poll and thereby condemned to wield the megaphone in the football game with Oregon. Arbuckle, who will take over as board chairman of the Wells Fargo Bank next year, forgot his ticket to the game and had to talk his way past a Pinkerton to get into the stadium...
William M. Pinkerton, news officer for the University, said yesterday that the Information Center will keep lists of people who do specific things--such as typing papers, babysitting, and so on--available to those who need them. The Housing Office helps people associated with the University find places to live, and similarly the Personnel Office helps with jobs...
Lincoln's CIA. White tie is a far cry from the original force. Founder Allan Pinkerton, who was Chicago's first police-force detective, went into the private-eye business on his own in 1850. Later he organized a kind of CIA for Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton unearthed one assassination plot against Lincoln, spirited the President-elect to Washington for his first inaugural by a circuitous rail route that produced a famous telegram: PLUMS [Pinkerton] ARRIVED WITH NUTS [Lincoln] THIS MORNING. Plums and his men acted as Union spies during the Civil War, set up the Secret Service, spent...