Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local Chief of Police arrived and personally assured Author-Producer Hasenclever that the situation was now under control. Thereupon the theatre was aired, the curtain rose, and Marriages Are Made in Heaven played to conclusion before a few orchestra-seaters who had daringly straggled back, and many a policeman...
...pedestrians should have "kept to the left," by command of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini; but until last week the order was never enforced. A young or pretty transgressor would experience no more than a gallant pressure upon the arm from a policeman who murmured mellifluently, "Sinistra, Signora." Usually the pressure and the suggestion were ignored by willful females, stubborn males-until last week...
When underworldlings and a Canton policeman slew Don R. Mellett, crusading editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News (TIME, July 26, 1926, et seq.), Police Chief Seranus Lengel was tried for corruption, sentenced to prison. He got a new trial, an acquittal. Last week he was reinstated as Canton's police chief...
This was the situation last week when, to the intense surprise of inspectors and culprits alike, a vast spectacular smuggling enterprise was discovered. Involved in the enterprise were four people; a jeweler, his pretty daughter, a traffic policeman named Mclntyre and the Chief Steward of the Cunard ship, Berengaria; its operations had brought $1,000,000 worth of diamonds illicitly into the U. S. The jeweler, Morris Landau, was unregenerate on discovery; his daughter Frances had hysterical remorse; the traffic policeman appeared innocently bewildered and spoke of the many important friends he had, among them William B. Leeds...
Entering his cabin last week, they found, as they had hoped, several packets of diamonds. These the steward intended to give to Mclntyre, the policeman; Mclntyre would give them to Frances Landau and she would give them to her father, who would sell them to bedizened women. In addition to the gems, they found the chief steward, a tall, good looking man, popular with all Berengaria passengers, whose income from tips was $15,000 a year, whose valet was Thomas Crossley Earnshaw, who had a wife and a cottage in Southampton, England, and who had been a Cunard employe...