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...Bosses. Boss of the whole show is Security Minister Wilhelm Zaisser, whose profession is revolution. Communist Zaisser led the Rhineland Red uprisings of 1923, later turned up in Spain as "General Gomez," commander of the 13th International Brigade. Heinz Hoffman, Inspector General of the Vopo, is a graduate of the Red army's war college...
...bumbling Yard Inspector, Sim is called in to investigate two hospital deaths. Up to the point where Sim first places his grimy handkerchief on the scalpel, all the actors have been scurrying around in deadly seriousness. After this, their poker faces are only foils for Sim's bluffing and frothing. Trevor Howard in particular, the master of the restrained emotions, tries to keep the mystery suitably sinister; but he is no match for Sim's buffoonery...
...naming four of O'Dwyer's high police officials (all now retired) who had never been publicly accused in connection with the gambling scandal. Witness Gross testified that he had not only bribed Chief Inspector August W. Flath, Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner Frank C. Bals, onetime head of a special "mayor's squad," and Chief of Detectives William T. Whalen, but also former Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien, a man of whom O'Dwyer said in 1950: "I believe Bill O'Brien is as honest a man as I have ever known...
...opportunities for next year are posted on the College Bulletin Board One Government ad even offers girls employment as an "Inspector of locomotives $5,490 a year...
Harriman's speeches began to expand from the mutual security theme to a broader political line. In Cincinnati, he said there should be a Government "inspector general" to root out corruption. Before a conference of the National Jewish Welfare Board in Detroit, he called for the enactment of a new labor law "which protects the legitimate interests of labor as well as management." He dwelled lovingly on one of the Democrats' biggest campaign arguments: prosperity. Said he: "The average American can buy 40% more today than he could in 1939, and this is after taxes and allowing...