Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned to get along. In making his official courtesy call on the commanding officer of a new post, he always saw to it that the officer was out at the time. Later, as a roving representative of the Inspector General's office, he always arranged his schedule to arrive at a new command in midafternoon, so that the commanding officer could look him over and decide whether to invite him to dinner. "I was always the only colored officer at my post," he recalled. "But it made no difference to me. Nobody paid any attention, and at every post...
...last week. The Russian ship Pobeda came into New York harbor with 37 employees for Russia's U.N. delegation. A U.S. health service officer came aboard for routine rat inspection. The Pobeda's captain took umbrage at what he considered an affront to national honor when the inspector claimed to have found evidence of rats. He refused to have his ship fumigated, insisting that his was a clean ship, with no rats. The health men showed him rat footprints on greasy ladders. No use. They showed him tail prints in the ventilators. No use. When the Pobeda threatened...
...same week Joseph Stance, health inspector of Glen Cove, L.I., was sure that what he smelled was no hallucination. More like an overworked cesspool, thought Stanco. He followed his nose to the old Maxwell estate at Glen Cove, now leased as a weekend recreation spot for Russian U.N. staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern...
Peter J. McGuinness had always liked to talk. He was born and raised in Greenpernt and left it only once, to work as a lumber inspector in the South. He soon came back explaining: "I don't like that Jim Crow they got or their goddam white crow either." As a young dock walloper he was the king of Greenpernt's waterfront. He got into a fight every night, flattened everyone he ever fought, and always leaped up on a lumber pile afterwards to give the spectators "a hot spiel...
...looked last week as though the committee had found more evidence of graft. An inspector in the Department of Supplies & Purchases was accused of having collected some $16,000 on faked bills. Inspectors in the fire marshal's office were charged with shaking down householders and businessmen, charging them $5 to $10 for permission to install extra fuel tanks...