Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson editorialist would probably reply that he only wants the State to act as policeman, to prevent unscrupulous men from blocking free enterprise. This is, first, unnecessary. Monopolies (and, needless to say, tariffs) do not arise without governmental connivance. No monopoly exists that did not grow with the aid of the State. Secondly, it is impossible. Never has a State been given control over the wealth produced by its citizens without grievously misappropriating...
...arrive at a half-finished building [all nonmilitary construction in Russia stopped at war's outbreak] in which a brigade staff is headquartered. The street bordering it on the north along the German lines has been smashed by mortar fire. At one intersection, where I remember the policeman who used to direct traffic, a tommy-gunner now stands, showing the passing soldiers a dip in the road invisible to the Germans...
...Sunday fireside chat the Mayor addressed himself to a little boy named George, who had written in about a gambling place where his father generally lost his weekly paycheck. Said the Mayor: "George, I'm going to put a policeman in that store. You just keep me informed, and other little boys who see the family happiness destroyed because some thieving tinhorn is robbing his daddy of money on horse races or gambling also please let me know. I won't tell anybody that you told me the place, but I'll send the police there...
...stopper on the stream of supplies from the U.S. to Britain. It was a fact that the I.R.A. is as hostile to De Valera's Government as to the British. The facts : the Eire Government two years ago executed two I.R.A. men for shooting a Dublin policeman; at least 500 I.R.A. men are now political internees in Eire; in Eire it is a capital offense even to shoot at the police, and such political crimes are tried not by jury but by special military courts...
...military men are also in Persia, but they are not yet an army. They are engineers, airmen, quartermasters, building roads and ports, forwarding military supplies to Russia over its Caspian routes. Last week the appearance at Teheran of a new U.S. figure-Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf (the New Jersey policeman who failed to solve the Lindbergh kidnapping)-to reorganize and enlarge the national police in Persia perhaps presaged the coming of U.S. combat forces, but for the present any fighting would be a job for the British and Russians...