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...Clutch of the Law. In Milwaukee, James Godsey, 24, fed up with his balky car and ten parking tickets, left this note tucked under the windshield wiper: "Mr. Policeman, the keys are in the car; I can't get it started, and you can have...
...with patient care, creating what he called "units"-short lengths of pipe containing gunpowder, a watch mechanism and a flashlight battery. The units were his single, secret passion, which, he hoped, would call attention to the grave injustices done him since that day in 1931, when, as a generator wiper for metropolitan New York's United Electric Light & Power Co. (which later became part of the Consolidated Edison company), he was felled by a whiff of gas. The way he saw things, Con Edison's refusal to support his claim for compensation, and the "perjury" of fellow employees...
According to Ready, the Cambridge police leave no visible sign that they have ticketed a Massachusetts car. Whereas they leave the actual ticket under the windshield wiper of an out-of-state car, they merely take down the license plate number of a Massachusetts resident. The police then check with the Registry of Motor Vehicles to find out who owns the car, and send him his summons through the mail...
Defense Rests. In Spring Lake, Mich., miffed at getting a speeding ticket that cost him $28.85, Norman DeVecht spotted a police car parked behind the city hall, was scheduled for another arraignment after he ripped off its siren, stop sign and red warning light, twisted a windshield wiper, bent a spotlight mounting, dented the roof...
...along his own private secretary. Instead, among the Central's 100,000 employees, he wants to find a team to help him "build a good foundation for the railroad." Try Research. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Perlman got his start in railroading as an engine-wiper before moving into the engineering end of the business. After a stint in the RFC's railroad division and at the Burlington, he joined the bankrupt...