Word: shea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters were told how two uniformed radio car patrolmen, Joseph Mc-Clellan and Donald Shea, had spotted Willie tinkering with the battery of a 1951 Chevrolet on a street close to the station. "Hey," Shea recalled saying, "that looks like Willie the Actor." Turning, McClellan had answered: "Don, I think you're right." When braced, Willie had naturally denied his identity. But the two coppers, the commissioner delightedly made clear, had not been fooled...
...Shea drove back to the station and got Third-Grade Detective Louis Weiner. Mc-Clellan kept watch. And in a few minutes the three closed in again and seized the glittering prize. "The best collar in recent years," said the commissioner. Beaming, the commissioner dramatically promoted both Shea and McClellan to first-grade detective with a $1,000-a-year raise...
...opinion the consumer who patronizes [one] is a damned fool because he usually makes a bad investment, does not get his money's worth and seriously damages the legitimate and traditional American economy upon which the discount house is an unwarranted and unjustifiable parasite. J. J. SHEA Dallas...
Making up the Crimson's first five firers are Jim Smith, Frank Sweet, John Shea, Paul Baumgartner, and George Ames...
...action been taken for so long? Why the abrupt 72-hour notice? Hospital authorities refused to answer those questions. Said the Rt. Rev. Michael P. O'Shea, dean of Roman Catholic clergy in the area: "Everyone knows where the hospital stands on the question of birth control ... I am certain that every doctor, every Christian and every citizen will realize that on a question like this we cannot carry water on both shoulders." Retorted a committee of Poughkeepsie's Protestant and Jewish clergymen: "The attempt to police the thoughts and personal actions of individuals ... is un-American...