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...Kansas City's sundry vices has been the biggest dope trade in any U. S. city. U. S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry Jacob Anslinger suddenly appeared in Kansas City, where his men have been quietly tracking dope merchants for nearly two years, and last week they arrested a Pendergast policeman, a Pendergast ward heeler, five lesser characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Floor Cleaned | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...hrer berated old Imperial Germany for underrating British strength.* In an even plainer warning the Foreign Secretary referred to stop signs on British highways: "HALT! MAJOR ROAD AHEAD!" and implied that those nations that were crossing "major roads" without "halting" might soon find themselves confronted with a husky international policeman in the person of John Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dying v. Paying | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...voice that calls off these radio alarms day by day in reassuring and sometimes lyric New Yorkese is usually that of ruddy, greying Captain John George Stein, head of the bureau, 36 years a policeman and the No. 1 expert in his field. One day last week expert Captain Stein took a few minutes extra over WNYC to list his findings on why girls leave home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Why Girls Leave Home | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Three men were beating a negro mercilessly, one pinioning his arms behind his back while the other two macerated his body with straight razors; the attackers retreated, however, before the advance of the Freshmen who remained with the injured men until the arrival of a policeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEGRO SAVED FROM FATAL BEATING BY 4 FRESHMEN | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

When Oscar Sher crashed into Thomas Barrett's car in New Jersey two years ago, Barrett's nose was cut off. A policeman found it on the hood of Barrett's car, rushed it to the hospital where it was stitched back in place. But in court last fortnight, Barrett told a sad tale: his appliquéd nose had sloughed off. He had to have a new one modeled out of cartilage. Jury's award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Husband | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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