Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, San Diego and Dallas. The fair girls vanished with the autumn and the Legion of Decency rectified the films. But burlesque in New York City suffered no brake except Commissioner Moss's warning and an occasional police raid when a show got too hot for even the precinct police captain to tolerate. The old scatological burlesque jokes bandied by the tramp, the Irishman and the Jew remained about the same. But as additional burlesque houses opened all over town, desperate competition was expressed in the increasing nudity of the dancers, chorus girls and strip-teasers. Last month...
...Cleveland, Police Captain Chester Burnett began a traffic law enforcement drive by tagging 50 motorists who had parked illegally in front of his precinct station...
...work. Thus it was a fine organization which Tom Pendergast handed over to his nephew James.- The various indictments charged local election officials with fraudulent vote counts, erasing and changing ballots; a precinct captain was indicted for intimidating a grand jury witness. The grand jury recounted the ballots and got quite different results from those reported by the officials. Typical contrast in one of the many precincts...
...three months; she was "fined" 1,000 francs ($46.60) and "penalized" 190,812 francs ($8,896.60) ; she had to pay the costs of the Government's having caught and punished her; and for one month there will remain publicly posted up at the police station of her precinct in Paris a notice proclaiming "THE CONVICTION FOR FRAUD of Mme Drouard-Marquiset...
...determination to do nothing of the sort. By the time a satisfactory compromise is reached, Phil has worked himself up to a lieutenancy through a riotous career on a Pacific island where his most spectacular achievement is reorganizing a native village on the lines of an East Side precinct, complete with fruit stand graft for his best friend (Warren Hymer). Good shot: a native mutiny ending when Donlan picks up the spears thrown at him by the natives, entrances his assailants with a demonstration of his superior skill...