Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Harry W. Starr, onetime city prosecutor, onetime election commissioner, by two checks of $200 each. He said: "They were given me ... for legal services which I rendered." ¶ Onetime State Senator George Van Lent, by two vouchers. ¶ The late Sergeant Martin C. Mulvihill, "world's greatest policeman," famed hero of many a dangerous arrest, by a $500 note signed while he was on the police force...
Reasons given for this depletion of commissioned Navy personnel: disappointingly poor and unequal pay, a bad promotion system. After the strenuous four years of instruction at Annapolis, an ensign receives $1,500 a year, $699 allowances, or about the pay of a District of Columbia policeman. After seven years in the service, he may be promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) with a total salary of $2,899. These rates are based on the military pay law of 1908, as revised by War bonuses and the hastily passed law of 1922. In 1929 a pay board representing the Army, Navy, Marines...
...Thorshavn, chief Faroe village, Poul Petubson, Faroe delegate to the Danish Parliament, called an indignation meeting. Later a crowd of inflamed cod fishermen with Delegate Petubson at their head swept through the streets to the Lagting (local parliament) building, brushed aside Thorshavn's lone policeman, hauled down the Danish flag, a white cross on a red field, and hoisted the Faroes' banner?a blue-trimmed red cross on a white field...
...knew their etiquette. It is a noble tradition that the Royal Garden Party is never called off because of rain. Sheltered beneath capacious umbrellas. Their Majesties strolled about as though not a drop were falling, zealously attended by Vice Chamberlain Jack Hayes, a Laborite who used to be a policeman...
...good silent picture by the standards of its time, but its revival as a talkie seems unnecessary. Oldfashioned, stagey, sentimental, it deals heavily with one or two remote social problems and, more immediately, with a young woman who goes to jail for having caused the death of a policeman who was chasing her automobile on his motorcycle. Her conviction is obtained, with patent suffering, by a prosecutor who has fallen in love with her. The absurdities involved in these events are made more obvious by jerky and tasteless direction and not helped much by Claudette Colbert's efforts...