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...take one to two years to add another 100 consular officials to its foreign service to be able to handle the additional work under the McCarran Act. In the meantime, the U.S. Immigration Service made a "gentleman's agreement" with the major foreign shipping lines to put an inspector aboard the big liners to screen the crews during the voyage; this would avoid a hopeless jam on arrival. The first inspector to try it was Leonard Martin, who went aboard the Liberte when it left New York Dec. 9, and spent the voyage to France and back screening...
...Early Years: Born March 17, 1899, in Pinconning, Mich., where his father ran a general store. At 13, after finishing the eighth grade, he went to work as a mail boy for the Weston-Mott Co. (auto axles) in Flint. During World War I, he worked as an ammunition inspector in the Flint Chevrolet plant; after the war he opened a real-estate brokerage with his father. In 1929, he opened a Chevrolet agency which he built into one of the largest auto agencies...
...address is 361 Washington," he began. "Third floor. At exactly 2:10, me and one of the inspectors went up to the front door of the flat, and Fitzgerald"--he pointed to a man of medium height with rough features--"he and another inspector went up the back. They bolted the doors as soon as we knocked. But Fitzgerald had a sledge hammer with him, in case' something like that happened. He bashed in the back door...
...Inspecteur de Penseuignement des Leagues Vivantes," Paul Feraud--he thinks Americans mistrust the term inspector and prefers to be called the supervisor of Paris schools--yesterday said he sees little similarity between language teaching methods at the University and in Europe...
John Clarke Whitaker, 61, likes to boast that he joined R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at the same time as another recruit: "Old Joe," the circus camel for whom Founder Reynolds named his cigarettes. Just out of the University of North Carolina, Whitaker started as a cigarette-machine inspector in 1913, the year Camels were put on the market. He worked up through manufacturing and personnel departments to a vice-presidency in 1937. Even when he became president in 1948, he never forgot that he started out in overalls, and he kept his door wide open so that...