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...made out by Filipinos in Hawaii and Guam were not being cashed in the Philippines, as they were supposed to be; instead, they were coming back with "chops" (post officialese for seals), showing that they were being handled by Hong Kong banks. U.S. post-office officials got suspicious, sent Inspector R. Frank Ogden, 53, to Hong Kong to investigate...
...checking up. One Theodore A. Swinarski was listed on the payroll. Roberts called at the home of State Representative Theodore Anthony Swinarski, boldly fired a shot in the dark: "Is it true that you make $50 a night working at Chicago Downs as a mutuel inspector?" Taken aback, Swinarski cried: "Why, it was only $25 a night." Moreover, he demanded, why did Roberts pick on him when at least seven other state legislators were doing the same thing? Reporter Roberts clucked sympathetically as he noted down the names given him by indignant Representative Swinarski...
...German students presented contrasting views on the role of the Schumann Plan in the European economic picture. Rudolf Renger, an official of the Social Democratic party, and an Inspector in the Civil Service of the West German state of Schleswig-Holstein, criticized postwar Allied policies towards Germany, stressing the forced deindustrialization of the Ruhr and the lack of benefits for Germany under the Marshall Plan...
...rare occasions when she was not booked for one of the formal parties given in her honor by various kings, presidents, generals and ambassadors, Margaret Truman skipped the Paris Opèra, went off for an evening of nightclubbing-with two Secret Service men, a French Surete inspector, and the usual photographers and reporters as escorts. After spending most of her time dodging the photographers, she decided to call it a night. For Paris, it had been a pretty dull one; but she was accomplishing a mission. "This pleasant, unaffected young woman," said London's Daily Express, "endears...
International fame came to him when he created a slow-motion, absent-minded detective named Inspector Maigret, who got his man in a new book almost every month between 1929 and 1931. Maigret was later put on the shelf in favor of serious psychological novels, but Simenon still gets him down for an occasional workout to please such fans as T. S. Eliot, Deems Taylor, Claude Rains...