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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Citizens of St. Louis were beginning to worry over having the lowest-paid major police force in the nation. Half of their 1,750 disgusted cops were in debt, others were quitting. As the Missouri State Legislature dragged its feet on a pay-raise bill, the crime, rate rose 58% over 1947. Said one $220-a-month patrolman's son: "I don't wanta be a cop; I wanta be a gangster. They make more money...
Abductions of anti-Communist Viennese by what the press delicately calls "one of the occupying powers" have recently risen to the rate of one a week. Sounding somewhat like an anxious mother telling her children not to take candy from strangers, Austria's Ministry of the Interior last week counseled: 1) insist on seeing the badge of any agent who approaches you claiming to be a policeman; 2) do not enter any car unless the agent in charge is a legitimate policeman; 3) leave your name, the name of the agent and the number of his car with...
Secretary Marshall, recalling World War II, talked in terms of theaters, choices and priorities. On China, his attitude had always been colored by the one failure of a distinguished career. He clung firmly to his stubborn belief that China could now rate no more than the attention of a holding action. This re-opened the question of whether the enemy should be continuously engaged on two fronts or be permitted to concentrate forces...
...presidential fact-finding board reported last week on the trouble. The board made no recommendations. It sidestepped the nature of hazards but did note that X-10 actually had a lower accident rate than the other two plants...
Students in the College can eat at the Union only, and they must either sign for board at the usual weekly rate of pay by coupon...