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Still smarting under the Mayor-elect's jibe, retiring Director Schofield among his last acts dismissed 228 policemen and promoted one patrolman to sergeant. That one was Charles P. Lang, whom Secretary Charles Francis Adams of the Navy dismissed from the Naval Reserve for wearing a U. S. uniform while making a liquor raid last July. "Lang," explained Mr. Schofield, "was made a martyr in the Navy and despite an honorable career was dismissed ... by a misguided and egotistic little whiffet...
...brown-speckled suit was ceremoniously led up the new blue carpet to the rostrum, duly installed. With one autocratic sweep he swore in the whole House membership at once. Other Democratic elections: Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois, Majority Leader; South Trimble of Kentucky, House Clerk; Kenneth Romney of Montana, Sergeant-at-Arms. Rules revision was temporarily postponed as some 5,000 legislative proposals were plopped into the bill basket...
...pipe, dashed about on a motorcycle. When the marchers reached the Capitol plaza they were encircled by police. Except for these jeers and songs, all was peace and order. A committee led by Herbert Benjamin was permitted to enter the Capitol. Benjamin started to push into the Senate chamber. Sergeant-at-Arms Barry blocked...
Start-in-life: Sergeant-Major in the Spanish American...
...newsmen regarded with wonder the action of a Canadian Court of Assizes in authorizing contempt proceedings against the Toronto Star for publishing an interview with Sergeant John Leopold, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who testified against Communists on trial. Said the court: "Newspapers have no business publishing an interview of things that were given outside the witness box while this trial is proceeding...