Word: burnses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gaston B. Means. The sensational witness of the scandal inquiries a year ago which drove Messrs. Denby and Daugherty from the Cabinet, Gaston B. Means, had been on trial for several weeks in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. He and a lawyer as sociate, Colonel Thomas B. Felder, were...
In Thayer, Mo., one Otto Luchsinger pushed through a crowd, entered a burning building, explained to those who would have restrained him that fire could not touch him because of his "faith in God," died of his burns a short time later.
Such a man may be as learned as Aristotle, or he may, as Mr. MacDonald said, have difficulty in signing his own name. He may be back in the country somewhere, singing the old folksongs, or talking about his sheep and his dogs, or quoting Burns. This is defining education...
When you meet him in the comfortable study of his New York home, you meet the successful lawyer, son of a former Attorney-General of Massachusetts, quiet, reserved, positive, the man you can easily visualize as he must have looked when he took his position as prosecuting attorney. This personality...
Later, he was transferred to the Bureau of Investigation where his remarkable memory was a great asset. When William J. Burns resigned as Director of the Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Hoover was made Acting Director. Attorney General Stone, casting about for a new Director, decided that he preferred a man...