Word: connors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motorcade drove back to Washington to the Hotel Shoreham to ask Bernard B. Robinson, Hopson's "Washington representative", whether he knew where his boss was. At the desk of the Shoreham whom should Mr. Jurney bump into but beefy, bad-tempered Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who captured "Pimpernel" Hopson fortnight...
...wasting your time," snarled Representative O'Connor. "Hopson is in my custody and I wouldn't turn him over to you under any consideration...
Chairman O'Connor's agents, joined by Chairman Black's and the Washington police, swarmed over the Shoreham, rapped at doors, questioned employes. The girl at the cigar counter had sold a cigar to a short, fat man with a fine disposition. Some bellboys thought they remembered such a man. The hunters looked in the Hopson closets, bathroom, under the Hopson bed. But "Pimpernel" Hopson had vanished once more...
Then Chairman O'Connor had a hunch. In 1933, he recalled, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...
When the O'Connor agents arrived they discovered that newshawks had beat them to it, were waiting to report the capture. Only thing lacking was the presence of Mr. Hopson. Host Hurley was hopping...