Word: fbiman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweets declared that he was the victim of a radio blacklist initiated by Counterattack, a weekly newsletter offering "facts to combat Communism." Counterattack's managing editor, ex-FBIman Theodore Kirkpatrick, answered Sweets by charging that the blacklist shoe was on the other foot, that he knew of "a number of instances" in which anti-Communist actors could not get radio jobs because the directors and producers were Communists or fellow travelers...
Pennington did not think bankers had done all they could to forestall thefts; in many cases, he said, even a cursory check would have shown that the employees involved had been living far beyond their means. The FBIman suggested that bankers make a practice of giving their bookkeepers and tellers their vacations "during the period when statements are forwarded or passbooks balanced"-and check...
Will the U.S. experience a great crime wave after the war? The head FBIman in New York thinks it will. Said E. E. Conroy to a convention of National Armored Car Operators in Manhattan: The crimes will come from: 1) the present increase of juvenile delinquency; 2) the drafting of young policemen; 3) the return of ten million veterans "trained to kill," with Commando-men presenting a special menace because they are trained to kill "skillfully and soundlessly." To help get ready, announced Agent Conroy, the FBI will double enrollment at its Police Academy in Washington this summer...
...onetime famed FBIman, Reed Ernest Vetterli, whose career could yield a dozen detective yarns, is in the middle of his hardest case: trying to get elected to Congress as a Republican in Utah's heavily New Deal Second District. His platform: support the President in the war; get new blood into Congress...
Friends brought champagne to the de Tristan house, and there were sounds of thankful revelry by night. FBIman Pieper, who had the honor of announcing the solution of the 186th of FBI's kidnapping cases, could now go on with his interrupted lecture...