Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's policeman of Wall Street, SEC has lately mellowed enough to be regarded with complacence, almost respect, even by brokers. But fortnight ago Bill Douglas actually was promoted to SEChairman. Last week, therefore, when he returned from vacation on Cape Cod to take over his new job in Washington, all Wall Street wondered whether the Policeman's Billy would not soon be whacking out stringent new reforms...
...purpose of reforming Wall Street, worried speculators were mollified when one of their number-Joseph Patrick Kennedy-was made Chairman. A practical Irishman who was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy had no desire to affront Wall Street, but saw clearly that financial excesses must be curbed. Policeman Kennedy generally used the technique of catching his flies with honey. By the end of a year the job was largely organized. Virtually all listed securities had been registered, a simplified registration form for new security issues of old-line companies was in service, a study of over-the-counter...
Married. Thomas Joseph Qualters, 33, onetime Notre Dame football player, onetime Massachusetts State policeman, successor since last December to the late Gus Gennerich as bodyguard to President Roosevelt; to Arlene Eade, of Lynn, Mass.; in Lynn. Two days after the ceremony, they were separated, Mrs. Qualters settling down to furnish an apartment in Washington while Bodyguard Qualters went west with the President...
...neck of one Edward Simpson, Massachusetts police doctors last week dug evidence which may convict him of murdering a policeman. The evidence: a bullet from a brother policeman...
...dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What typewriters they forgot to destroy they took with them, sold for 50? each. Next night they came back. This time they were greeted by a policeman who was surprised to discover that the pillage and wreckage had been done by six barefooted, dirty-faced moppets, twins Chester & Leo Froelich, 9; John Rudecki, 9, and his 8-year-old brother Walter; Walter Miranda and his 6-year-old brother Norbert. John Rudecki, the only one who tried...