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Since 1926 the iron fist of Pilsudskrs regime has pressed heavily on Poland. With his last breath the blustering old Dictator two years ago placed his benediction on bush-browed Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Army, gave him to the nation as his successor. Lacking the personal magnetism of the Old Marshal, the landscape-painting Marshal makes a poor Dictator. Using Pilsudski's coffin as his chief stock-in-trade, soft-spoken Smigly-Rydz has appealed in vain for all factions to heed the Old Marshal's wish for a unified Poland...
Black-&-Tans, those hard-bitten ex-Army men who were sent to Ireland in 1920 to shoot it out with the Nationalist guerrillas. Irish County Inspector Hannay (John Lodge) and British Captain Wiltshire of the Royal Intelligence Corps (John Loder) both dedicated to preserving British law & order, have captured a pair of important emissaries from Sinn Fein headquarters but their lorry is hijacked by a mysterious local Sinn Fein chieftain named Commandant O'Dea (Niall MacGinnis). Neither suspects that O'Dea is the high spirited young brother of Maureen Elliot (Antoinette Cellier), the Irish girl with whom both...
...about little ones. The police had a tight case against a holdup suspect. Although they didn't need it to convict, they introduced the man's own signed confession, secured at police headquarters. Fifteen police denied any third-degree methods. Liebowitz asked an old deputy chief inspector on the stand: "How long have you been a police officer?" "Thirty years." "Did you ever beat up a prisoner to get a confession?" "No, never." "Did you ever see a policeman beat a prisoner to get a confession?" "No, I never did." "How long have you been a policeman?" "Thirty...
Syria. Pilot Gromov and companions had covered a geographical distance o. 6,262 miles, not counting detours and backtracks. They were in the air for 62 hr. 17 min. A representative of the National Aeronautic Association shipped their sealed, clock-controlled barograph to Washington. A California fruit inspector fearful of Russian insect pests climbed into the plane, peeked and poked, confiscated a bag of fruit...
...John Montague was as simple as the fugitive's career had been fantastic. Last month, one of the innumerable accounts of the famed Montague v. Crosby golf match finally caught the eye of someone who knew La Verne Moore and was interested in finding him. This was Police Inspector John Cosart of Troop D, Oneida, N. Y., who clipped the article, sent it to Inspector Joseph Lynch at Malone, N. Y. who sent Moore's fingerprints to Los Angeles...