Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gold was an even more ubiquitous policeman in the strictly economic sphere. The main rules governing gold were simple. If a country bought more goods than it sold, it settled for the excess purchases by shipping gold in payment. Since nearly all currencies were convertible into gold as a common denominator, a country that lived beyond its international income soon lost backing for its currency and promptly got into serious internal difficulties, which might even include threats of assassination to its finance minister. The main virtue of the gold standard was that it operated with the impassivity of a natural...
...city and Capitol police, 90 detectives and 60 Secret Service men swarmed in and around the building. Ticketholders jammed the front door of the House wing. A Texas state senator and the Governor of North Carolina tried to wedge in ticketless, were sent packing. "Get back there!" barked a policeman as he collared another man, tall, dour-faced, pince-nezed, who was trying to push by. "I'm the Secretary of the Treasury," said Henry Morgenthau, mildly. Inside, each ticketholder was given a brisk frisk for weapons before he could proceed to the galleries, where another hundred Secret Service...
...clock, 4,000 of them had squeezed into the movie house. They suffered the feature picture while 4,000 more queued up outside. A policeman, pinned against a door jamb, got two ribs fractured and was removed to a hospital. A plate-glass show window fell in, and the crowding jitterbugs shrieked. Thirty more police arrived. Mounted patrolmen wrangled 75 of the under-admission-age children out of the line and sent them home to mother...
...cigar-smoking Julius Klorfein, who had already bought $2,735,000 in bonds, including $1,000,000 worth for Jack Benny's old violin (TIME, March 8), bought at auction the autographed galley proofs of Wendell Willkie's new book, One World, for $100,000. A Detroit policeman, making house-to-house calls, came away from one home with a $100,000 subscription. The home owner: Speedboat Manufacturer Gar Wood...
...successively as the operator at Fort Wayne, Selfridge Field and Wayne County Airport. Her message: all soldiers on pass in the area return to their stations at once. More than 2,000 did, leaving drinks, dates and shows and a trail of blue air. Barbara finally looked up a policeman and confessed. Said she: "If I couldn't have him, I was making sure no one else could...