Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thought otherwise. In an ultimatum to Hobbies, officers of the Royal Society deplored the sport. Said an R.S.P.C.A. inspector with finality: "Anyone who knows about boys will know that ... the mice will be prodded unmercifully to ginger them up." Britons tensed themselves for a finish fight. Then the iron curtain clanked down. Hobbies censored all news of mouseboat racing, refused to divulge even the inventor's name...
...Owoooooo!" cried the housewives of Cerne Abbas (Dorset), "here's the milkman and me with the curlers still in my hair!" No wonder they were fluttered. The milkman was Edward Kenelm Digby, 52, eleventh Baron Digby, World War I colonel in the Coldstream Guards, World War II inspector of infantry-training establishments, co-grandfather (with Winston Churchill) of Randolph Churchill's small son. Winston Churchill...
Family Tie. In Chicago, Immigration Inspector Michael Petrolak looked up a cousin after 24 years, let her put on his handcuffs, found he had lost...
...told neighbors that her husband had been a criminal and was hiding out. But Ivan Kudrin, a police inspector in the tradition of Dostoevsky's Porfiry Petrovich, became suspicious. He learned that Udod had no criminal record, but that Serafima's family had. The paint job, too, interested him. Kudrin dug around Serafima's cellar and found Udod's body...
...reforms to assure enlisted men "more definite protection from the arbitrary acts of superiors." The Army's rickety military-justice machinery would be modified to include enlisted men as members of courts-martial; sentences would be progressively stiffened for higher ranks. To check up on abuses, the inspector general's office would be beefed up with additional investigators...