Word: plainclothesmen
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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...
...Federal agents, city detectives and State troopers watched a man come out of a small stucco house, cross a lane to a frame garage. He backed his black sedan into the sunlight and 75 hearts skipped a beat when the license plate shone with the numerals 4U-13-41. Plainclothesmen followed the car a few blocks, forced it to the curb...
...Mayor of Pittsburgh. I deserve a little respect. . . ." "Horsefeathers!" Flushed with exasperation, Mayor Mc-Nair cried: "If you weren't so fooled and befuddled by a lot of Russian Communists you'd-" By this time the disorder was so great that the Mayor, shielded by two plainclothesmen, was forced to retreat through the fist-shaking, shrieking crowd to the street. There he told his secretary: "A few more talks like that and we'd wipe out these Communists." Pittsburghers gloomily shook their heads. A born windmill tilter, William McNair punctuated 30 unprosperous years at the bar with...
...from frightened neighbors and government officials, U. S. correspondents took enough stock in the battle of the Sixth Police Station to cable full details north: Two armed soldiers swung up in a car, rushed into the building and emerged in a few minutes with three uniformed policemen and two plainclothesmen. Following the honored formula, the five were told to run, were shot in the back. But the plainclothesmen had not been sufficiently searched. They returned the fire. Before they too fell, the soldiers were badly wounded...
...appointed for the march on the House of Commons, uniformed police and plainclothesmen from Scotland Yard quietly converged upon the Workers' Movement headquarters in Russell Square near the British Museum. The detectives entered the dingy headquarters building, burst in upon "Wal" Hannington who was talking with a newshawk. Unresisting, Hannington submitted to arrest for inciting a mutiny, was jailed without bail in Bow Street station...