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...admired it; the Medical Review of Reviews published it (1918). In 1919 Author Dennett republished the article separately; in 1922 the Post Office declared it unmailable; in 1928 a Washington (D. C.) member of the D. A. R. found her daughter reading it. She complained to a Post Office inspector, one C. E. Dunbar, who wrote for a copy under an assumed name, received it by mail, instituted proceedings against the author. By then 25,000 copies had been sold...
...Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave, holder of the World's Automobile Speed Record (231.36 m. p. h.) was fined ?5 ($25) in London for driving 45 m. p. h. At the hearing, a police inspector complained that Sir Henry had "nine previous convictions over a period of years...
...William Zebu-Ion Foster, No. i Communist in the U. S., and his chief aides-burly, white-haired Editor Robert Minor of the Daily Worker; dour-faced Israel Amter, local Communist organizer. Equally conspicuous was dapper Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York Police Commissioner, and his gold-laced bodyguard, Chief Inspector John O'Brien...
...great shouting and shuffling in City Hall corridors. A tattered mob led by Communists crowded into the high-ceiled, paneled council chamber until it was full. Outside were 2,000 more frenzied demonstrators. When police tried to clear the City Hall steps, a dozen men jumped on gigantic Inspector George J. Matowitz. He shook them like rats off his shoulders, shouted orders for more police. Mob fists crunched and pummeled. Knives flashed. Fire engines clattered up. Hose lines were connected. The mob was washed away. Behind it was left trampled Sol Jagoda with a broken back, trampled William Lux with...
...Henry Brown, who claimed to be a onetime dog license inspector said that "some had to resign" for not bringing in enough licenses, asserted that inspectors were paid on a commission basis and that each had to bring in 175 licenses or $350 per month...