Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DePauw University Major General David M. Shoup, inspector general, U.S.M.C. . . . LL.D...
...begins for Chief Inspector Gideon (Jack Hawkins) when a "copper's nark" (informer) turns over a nasty kettle of fish: a member of Gideon's staff has taken hush money from a dope ring. Gideon rushes off to the office, rips the lettuce off his lapsed subordinate, sends out the alert for a sex murderer from Manchester. Then he looks in at the scene of a payroll robbery, gets word that the inspector he sacked has been killed by a passing car, discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes...
...worked in auto plants in summer, went to Dartmouth, then to M.I.T. ('36) for his degree in engineering. After several years at other companies, he arrived at Pontiac, as a menial "tool chaser." He tried everything, just so it added another bit of experience: defense plant chief inspector, car-assem bly superintendent, assistant master mechanic, boss of a new "process develop-ment" section searching to make prod- ucts more efficiently. Says Knudsen: "As long as you're interested enough to take any job that comes along, you'll find something worthwhile to do, and it usually turns...
...Midnight Knock. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, by the tightest of decisions (5-4), upheld the fine and the 1801 Baltimore ordinance, and ruled that the health inspector's visit did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guaranteed "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures...
Apart from the fact that Inspector Gentry had ample time to secure a search warrant in the hours between his two visits to the house, noted Justice Douglas, a basic right was denied Citizen Frank. "One invasion of privacy by an official of Government can be as oppressive as another. Health inspections are important. But they are hardly more important than the search for narcotics peddlers, rapists, kidnapers, murderers and other criminal elements"-all covered, except in emergency cases, by search-warrant procedure...