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Also included of the rolls, according to the reports which they gave on the questionnaire, are a Communist organizer, a writer of "drugstore classics," a laborer, a policeman, a scalp treatment specialist, a milk-bottle-packager, a sand and gravel expert, a wood preserver, a dog caterer, an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, and 17 unemployed, one of whom described himself as "looking for work; hoping for relief...
...essential way different from the political purges of Italy, Germany, and Russia. Compulsory military training is completely against the American ideal of personal freedom, and leads directly to that choking of individuality which has told so heavily upon the youth of the totalitarian states. And the everyman-a-policeman attitude, strongly encouraged by the F. B. I., that resulted in the unfortunate Grand Rapids incident bears a startling and frightening resemblance to the Gestapo-inspired reign of terror in Germany...
...Foreign Office, the huge doors of the Chancellery swung open and a black car rolled out. In it was Supreme Commander Adolf Hitler on his way to lead what he was determined should be the most stupendous and fateful military campaign in history. "Nach Paris," responded the policeman on guard jokingly in reply to the query of a curious passerby, not knowing that the same thought was in the mind of the small figure...
Legend says that on at least two occasions outsiders got in: once when firemen were admitted to put out a fire-after first being initiated into the society; another time when a Keys man, pretending to have lost his Bones key, got a campus policeman to unlock the door...
Also working on the problem is the social welfare bureau of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, run by a policeman, Psychologist William McDonald. Most cops kill themselves, says the bureau, because of: 1) debts and duns; 2) drinking; 3) domestic difficulties; 4) harsh discipline; 5) a handy revolver. By calling off loan sharks, and talking over family troubles "cop to cop," the bureau claims to have saved many a blue-uniformed life...