Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to give this new drive teeth, Leahy said that plainclothesmen and women detectives are going to be scattered throughout the city to be sure that the local "refreshment houses" toe the line. All taverns violating this regulation will first be warned. Then if further trouble occurs their licenses will be revoked. Several have already been warned...
...Defense League and the Civil Liberties Union. The idea was to test the validity of Boss Hague's ordinances against distributing non-commercial literature. The organizers from New York had some difficulty getting into Jersey City at all, for almost as fast as they arrived waiting police and plainclothesmen put them back on the ferries and tubes to Manhattan. When their infiltration was nonetheless accomplished, they staged an orderly demonstration and were promptly picked up and whirled in waiting automobiles to the city line, where they were dumped with a stern lecture. Some promptly returned and were arrested...
...Moors, Carlists, Falangists. Revisionists take this guard, placing sentries at every corner of the building. No matter who has the office guard there are always on outside duty, in addition: two city police, with rifles; two tricorne-hatted civil guards, with rifles; two white robed Moors, with rifles; assorted plainclothesmen, with revolvers. Vigilance does not stop there. Inside the building, in the large bare room that was once the Bishop's and is now the Caudillo's anteroom there hangs an arresting poster: Silence, enemy ears are listening...
...morning coat, King George VI soberly entered the Royal Box. Queen Elizabeth, appearing in powder blue, greeted Queen Mary with a kiss on both cheeks. Behind steeped the Dukes & Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, and a set of silk-toppered plainclothesmen. From far & near burst a crescendo of cheers from some 250,000 throats. Thus heralded was George VI's first arrival at Epsom Downs as King, to view the 157-year-old racing classic founded by the 12th Earl of Derby...
With a bodyguard of two plainclothesmen and one state policeman. Italian Ambassador Auguste Rosso made a quiet half-hour visit yesterday to Harvard, accompanied by Ermanne Armao, Consul General of Boston and Judge Felix Forte. This escort was provided with an eye to yesterday's stabbing threat in Boston...