Word: inspector
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman and a "stoop-shouldered man" who might have been accomplices...
Resigned. New York City's Commissioner of Police, Major General John Francis O'Ryan. Reasons: differences of opinion with Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. His successor: onetime Chief Inspector Lewis Joseph Valentine...
...respective countries. Old Poet Robinson, Maine-born, Harvard-bred, chose the uncrowded profession of poet at an early age. Establishing himself in Manhattan "in a sordid stall on the fifth floor of a dreary house," he kept himself and Pegasus fed by doing odd jobs, was once a construction inspector on the subway. Only U.S. poet ever reviewed by a U.S. President, Robinson got more attention when Theodore Roosevelt wrote an encomium of his poetry in the Outlook, and offered him a consulship in Mexico. Robinson declined the consulship, accepted a job in the New York Customs House, which...
...Inspector Evans warned correspondents that "To speak to them would be a violation of a tradition of the Royal Family." Prince George, however, was too happy to stand upon tradition. With Princess Marina on his arm he cried: "The cat's out of the bag! It was all sudden and unexpected. I don't know when the wedding will be but we're both most happy...
Back to Bled next day went George and Marina. Correspondents who followed them into the Balkans were stood off by Inspector Evans with lavish treats of Serbian beer. He made copy with such jokes as "Now there, keep away. I have a policeman stationed behind every tree. No photographs!" When the correspondents grew restless Major Humphrey Butler. Adjutant to Prince George, joined Inspector Evans in describing at length the prowess of His Royal Highness. "He can outwalk either of us," they said. "Once the Prince climbed to Prince Paul's hunting hut in an hour and 45 minutes. Even...