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Frank Smith: What did the Captain want?
Joe Friday: He’s raising the roof. Says he just got a call from the corner pocket. They’re leaning all over him. Says he’s tired of answering questions. Says we better come up with some of the answers for him.
The Big Mole - Dragnet (1950)
Deputy Chief Parks is only days away from occupying the “corner pocket"--the sixth-floor, Parker Center office of the chief of police.
David Dotson “The Right Stuff” August 10, 1997 LA Times
Joe Friday: He’s raising the roof. Says he just got a call from the corner pocket. They’re leaning all over him. Says he’s tired of answering questions. Says we better come up with some of the answers for him.
The Big Mole - Dragnet (1950)
Deputy Chief Parks is only days away from occupying the “corner pocket"--the sixth-floor, Parker Center office of the chief of police.
David Dotson “The Right Stuff” August 10, 1997 LA Times
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"A prison record is a handicap, a brass monkey perched from the back of every man we choose. If the man starts giving us trouble, we simply turn that brass monkey against him. If a man turns from us, we add a full-scale smear campaign to the handicap of his prison record, and the man is ruined for life. Society will accept a man with one brass monkey, like a prison record, but two? Never." "The Brass Monkey," I was a Communist for the FBI, air date 4-9-53
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