Word: burnses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The "villainy" of Oilman Sinclair's friends was hiring detectives to shadow the jury that was trying him, the new "villains" were these same detectives and notably their chiefs-Detective William John Burns, his son Sherman Burns and their "chief shad-ower," one Charles G. Ruddy. Not only in...
But even the cold need of culture dashed on the fire of curiosity can only make a sizzling noise. The fire burns just the same, giving glow enough to draw a sparkle from the jewel most of us are too weak, too pale to wear.
"Villain" Burns emerged when, as Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice under Harry Micajah Daugherty (1921-24), he was quizzed by Senate investigators about the use of one of the Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to...
*One of the messages between a Mr. & Mrs. Duckstein who were respectively confidential secretaries to Publisher Edward B. McLean of the Washington Post and "Villain" Burns, read as follows: "Cravingly in Dxewonx resurge lodgement ailment fastidious tuck skewered suckled scrage emerse vithouse punctators gob. . . ." This was translated: "According to Lambert...
They tarried in Manhattan on their way to Washington. Manhattanites remarked that President Quezon was a cafe-au-lait replica of their small, garrulous Irish Mayor, James J. Walker. The likeness is more than skin-deep. Just as Mayor Walker is "Jimmie" to the Manhattan millions, President Quezon is "Manny...