Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ruthless at clapping alcoholics into asylums, bootleggers into jails, is knobby-fisted General Jalander, Prefect of the half-million Finns in Usimaa Department. Pale-nosed teetotalers received last week with mixed feelings one of His Excellency's pepperiest pronouncements...
Clever at currying favor with Il Duce is Verona's obsequious Prefect Roberto Lops. Last week he industriously circularized the Fascist gentlemen of Verona, urged them to sign a petition conceived to tickle the vanity of all-potent Benito Mussolini...
...Something must be done to check the ever increasing indecency of women's dress," wrote Prefect Lops, and went on to declare that, although both Pope Pius XI and Queen Helena of Italy have condemned short skirts and bare arms, results have been meager if not lacking. "However, who can doubt," concluded fulsome Prefect Lops, "that an order from our beloved Duce would be obeyed UNHESITATINGLY by every woman in Italy...
...best-known policeman in France is dapper, jovial Jean Chiappe, Paris's bowler-hatted Prefect. Last week the second best-known French policeman, meticulous Gaston Edmond Bayle, was shot three times in the back and died instanter...
...Soon Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe came to stand for long minutes looking down at the man he had often called his most valuable assistant. M. le Prefect is a Corsican, slick and hard, but his voice broke as he turned to M. Benoit, grimvisaged Chief of the Surete General (Secret Service). "You tell his wife, Benoit," said Corsican Chiappe, "I can-not-the five poor little ones...