Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau to Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings last week: "I was deeply shocked to learn that certain members of the Secret Service had taken it upon themselves to investigate activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ... I wish to take this opportunity to express...
Purred back Attorney General Cummings: "I deeply appreciate Secretary Morgenthau's fine letter. ... I regard the matter as satisfactorily terminated."
Joseph Edward Murphy, longtime assistant Chief of the Secret Service, and Grady Lee Boatwright, head of the St. Paul office, set out to see what they could get on the G-Men. Specifically they wanted to show that in killing a minor Dillinger mobster named Eddie Green in St. Paul...
Named in the indictment was practically every prince and potentate in U. S. oildom. The list included President Edward G. Seubeit of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, President John A. Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Dan Moran of Continental Oil Co., President R. G. A: Van de Woude...
Second, and more serious, threat to Kenyon was the impecunious rut into which small denominational colleges are apt to fall. For avoiding it Kenyonites give full credit to their lanky, weather-beaten President William Foster ("Fat") Peirce who, since he came from Boston in 1892, has built Kenyon a spruce...