Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Want a Policeman (by Rufus King & Milton Lazarus; Francis Curtis, Richard Myers, producers) runs true to the form of latter-day stage mysteries which, unable to compete with the range and detail of cinema thrillers, depend for their excitement upon foolish exaggeration and lots of low comedy. For almost three acts, I Want a Policeman is motivated by the fact that every time somebody tries to tell somebody else how rich Mr. Davidson died, nobody will listen. Meanwhile, a boob policeman (Harold Moffet), a silly Englishwoman (Estelle Winwood) and an eccentric youngster (Clinton Sundberg) try for laughs...
...bought working control from old Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. for $7,300,000. When President Gibson decided to inspect his new offices in Manufacturers Trust, he started from New York Trust Co., where he was executive committee chairman, walked briskly a few blocks, hesitated, finally had to ask a policeman to direct him to the bank he had just bought...
...produced his diplomatic credentials, saying "I am the Minister of Iran," they, in abysmal ignorance, exclaimed: "Aw, this guy is nothing but a preacher." The Great Khan was avenged to the extent that Elkton's Town Council, under pressure from the U. S. State Department, fired the policeman who perpetrated this outrage. Constable Clayton L. Ellison. Last week Iran was incensed to learn that Elkton had stealthily rehired Constable Ellison. At once the powerful influence of the Kingdom of His Majesty Shah Reza, King of Kings and the Elect of God, again operated, and Elkton's Town Council...
...midst of holiday festivities, the President felt his head grow thick as an-other troublesome cold caught up with him. Abandoning labor on his message to Congress he went to bed, and Mrs. Roosevelt sent him up milk & toast for supper. C On Thanksgiving, 1925, Roy Olmstead, Seattle policeman, was caught redhanded docking a load of liquor from British Columbia. During Prohibition he had served practically all of Seattle's rum-running "mother boats" with speed boats which brought their cargo to shore on schedule. His fast launches were said to have got their cues from his wife...
...paternity), Neumann leaves an open question. Less questionable is the tale of Zaharoff's absconding with 25 boxes of gum and 169 sacks of gallnuts from the Constantinople shop where he was employed, hot-footing it to England. (Neumann thinks that some time, somewhere Zaharoff also killed a policeman.) Having found his way to Athens, he worked again in a shop, in a bar, as a "guide." then met the man who gave him the push he needed...