Logo of which organization? Which now common phrase owes its etymology to this symbol?Answer: This is the logo of the Pinkerton detective agency the members of whom served as a kind of private militia. The agency was employed by many industrialists to infiltrate and keep a check on labour unions including the Molly Maguires, a case that was fictionalized in the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear. The logo gave rise to the term Private eye for a detective. Kaushik, Karthik, Matti Tapaninen, Arvind, Raghu, Ajinkya, Iam, Abhra, Rithwik, Ramji, v. chandrashekar, Adi, Rajesh, the novice and Hari all got the agency right. Some got the etymological connect I had in mind as well. Well done.
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The Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Pinkerton and Private eye
Hello again,
I think it is Pinkerton detective agency logo.
Pinkerton detective agency.
Private Eye
Pinkertons
phrase: "Watchmen"? "City never sleeps"?
Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
All seeing eye?
Pinkerton's agency and private eye
Pinkertons, the phrase is private eye
from Abhra Das,Guwahati
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Third Degree
Rithwik
Pinkerton Detective Agency. The phrase is Private Eye?
pinkerton
-----------------v.chandrashekar
The logo of Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the first private detectives. This logo gave rise to the phrase "private eye"
Pinkerton detective agency, Private Eye
pinkerton detective agency
it gave the phrase CITI never sleeps/wallstreet never sleeps
Allan Pinkerton's detective agency; Private eye
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