Harkins
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“I wanted her to stay,” Mr. Harkins says in a phone call.
Mr. Harkins insists that he is “not really special,” but he can be said to speak for his fellow officers by dint of family history.
When he retired on Nov. 7 after 32 years on the force, he brought to an end—at least for now—four generations of service by Harkins men to the NYPD.
Patrick J. Harkins, Mr. Harkins’s great-grandfather, joined the city’s police force in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was president and Franklin Edson was mayor.
Harkins signed on as a cop in 1922, retiring 42 years later.
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