The Big Shakedown
A convicted bookmaker is blackmailed into increasing his bookmaking business in order to pay off a phony cop. Friday and Smith seek to track him down.
Original Air Date: May 22, 1952
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I’m really glad you shared a little back story behind the Buddy Poppies that are offered by the VFW. I don’t know if you are aware of the origin of the poppy for use in this way, but the “poppy movement” was inspired by a beautiful battlefront poem “In Flanders Fields.” This was written in France during WWI. I think that if even a few people are reminded of the beauty of the symbolism behind the poppies, they might feel differently when they are next offered one.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
— Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 – 1918)