Word: whalen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire department had ordered installation of automatic sprinklers in the studio which Pathe officials resisted on the claim that no more than five inflammable film reels (the legal limit) were stored there. In the fire ruins Police Commissioner Whalen dramatically counted out 150 blistered cans of film reels...
...Manhattan, President-elect Rubio was lunched by Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lament and United Pressman Karl A. Bickel, conferred with Mayor Walker, Police Commissioner Whalen...
...weeks after the murder the police dawdled over clues, questioned suspects, released them. Mayor James John Walker, fretted by his police department's impotence, fearing a political backlash, released Joseph A. Warren as Police Commissioner and installed Grover Aloysius Whalen, dapper manager of the John Wanamaker department store...
Even better than the Tiger, the Chief of Police of Paris knows the value of a perfect valet. Monsieur Jean Chiappe, like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen, is sartorially pluperfect. He appears at inquests in a cutaway, dashes to the scene of midnight murders in a white tie. It was a beau geste when Chief Chiappe gave Clémenceau Valet Albert employment last week, not as a valet but as a special inspector of police. People who remember that the "Tiger" generally slept in his clothes, hardly ever allowed them to be pressed, and once wore...
...Springfield, H. McGinness of Brighton, H. I. O'Brien of Rutland, Vt. C. M. Amfott of Fitchburg, W. Brennan of New York, E. L. Couture of Windsor, Vt. C. H. Edwards of Waterville, Mc. G. Hayes of Hartford, Conn P. C. Rogers of Exeter, N. H. and J. P. Whalen of Holyoke Mass...