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a private detective business in the US, started by Allan Pinkerton (1819-84)

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Pinkerton
An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884)

He joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton.

Pinkerton
A Scottish and Northern Irish habitational surname for someone from a place of that name near Dunbar
Pinkerton Syndrome
The tendency of some Asians to consider Caucasians superior, and to be biased in favour of Caucasians over Asians
Pinkerton
An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), Scottish-born founder of a American detective agency involved in early anti-union and strikebreaking activity
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
U.S. independent police force. The agency was founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton (1819-84), former deputy sheriff of Cook county, Ill. It originally specialized in railway theft cases, protecting trains and apprehending train robbers. It solved the $700,000 Adams Express Co. theft in 1856, and in 1861 it thwarted an assassination plot against president-elect Abraham Lincoln. It later participated in anti-labour union activities (see Homestead Strike). It was instrumental in breaking up the Molly Maguires
Brian Pinkerton
{i} American who developed the WebCrawler®
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