Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sherman skipped. But when he returned to New York, he told the committee with a prodigious sigh, O'Dwyer refused to see him. Once they met at a policeman's funeral on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral. They shook hands warmly. When they parted, one of Sherman's detective friends came up to him and said: "What are you so friendly with that guy for? He's tapping your telephone." Sherman could hardly believe it. "We're not friendly now, Senator," he told the committee...
Born: Dec. 16, 1888, at Bône, Algeria, a policeman...
Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan had a decisive reply to Mike Quill: he issued an order forbidding policemen to join labor unions. A policeman, like a soldier, may not strike, cannot give even part of his loyalty to a union. Union cops, he pointed out, could hardly be expected to police strikes by brother unionists...
Everyone agreed that the New York policeman's lot is not a happy one. A patrolman's pay during his first three years is $3,400 annually. Deductions for such things as pensions (some are paying as much as 23% of their salary into the pension fund), uniforms and even ammunition leave many a $3,400-a-year patrolman only $37.19 a week to take home. Since October, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which is not a union, has been asking the city to take a larger share of the pension load. It was pushing a bill...
...Eyes Have It. In Chicago Professional Panhandler Thomas Murphy was arrested in the midst of his blind-beggar routine when a policeman asked: "Didn't I arrest you a few months ago?" and was assured by Murphy: "I never saw you before in my life...