Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scandal in Paris (Arnold Pressburger-United Artists), based in a rather freewheeling way on actual fact, tells how Eugene François Vidocq (George Sanders), a criminal almost too clever for his own good, became prefect of the Paris police and turned his youthful research to gainful account as the first great detective (circa...
...might bring, it would not cause the corrosive disillusionment which came in the wake of 1919's extravagant hopes. On the conference's opening day, police set up wooden barricades near the Luxembourg Palace to keep the crowds back-but there were no crowds. At lunchtime, the Prefect of Police personally inspected the whole palace to make sure that it contained no bombs. Then the delegates began to file past the honor guard's drawn swords (Molotov was the only delegate who did not tip his hat to the guard...
Poached Boar. In the department of Charente-Inferieure, France, the prefect viewed with alarm a new hunting technique: digging up German land mines, reburying them in boar-filled woods...
...councilors listened, forgot their political differences, joined ranks (from Communists to Popular Republicans) behind the voice of conscience, pointing out the long-neglected connection between private and public morals. Police Prefect Charles Luizet announced that the brothels would be closed within three months. The Council earnestly applauded...
...Pontiff postponed a scheduled audience with Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, the Prefect of Propaganda Fide, and received the two Americans at once. They were with him 56 minutes. From the Pope's study on the second floor, Flynn moved to the third-floor office of Monsignor Domenico Tardini, the Vatican's Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs and president of the special Vatican Committee for Russia...