Word: plainclothesmen
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...proof of dishonesty in basketball games at the Garden, he'd better come through with it." (Allen promptly wired the name of one player who had "sold out," had been expelled from college for it.) President Irish announced that he would have 36 uniformed policemen, almost as many plainclothesmen and private detectives on duty this season with express orders to prevent all known gamblers from entering the Garden...
...dirty, swarming, vice-infested Hastings Street a Negro shot a white man. Ugly words were passed on streetcars and busses. Hoodlums of both races, part of the human flotsam tossed up by war, got into brawls and fist fights. Plainclothesmen and uniformed police nightly raided Negro nightclubs, legitimate and otherwise, frisking patrons for concealed weapons...
...Capitol was alive with police, Marines, plainclothesmen. The crowd spread the length of the Plaza, knotted here & there around portable radios...
Following the President was a hard job. He arrived behind schedule at South Station and was rushed on his way, protected on all sides by Secret Service men. Immediately before his train arrived, one ostensibly his drew in. With plainclothesmen in every window, it stayed on the track next to the one on which the real car arrived...
...daily cost to New York City of $1,300, nine police sergeants, six mounties, 22 plainclothesmen and 117 patrolmen were deployed along the Hudson River waterfront to keep a tight ring around the lady so that no one could even get a good look...