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...Castor Oil. Put this way, as it often was, the question was ridiculous. Director Hoover's G-men were not a strong-arm squad of club-swinging blackshirts; nobody was fed castor oil, or taken off in the middle of the night to be liquidated. Certainly the FBI could not be accused of making reckless arrests...
...officially renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the FBI men had already earned their more famous nickname. Trapped in the bedroom of his Memphis hideout, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly, kidnaper of Oklahoma Oilman Charles Urschel, cowered in a corner with his hands up, begging: "Don't shoot, G-men. Don't shoot...
...civil rights the court has provoked some sardonic comments in the Department of Justice. Since 1947, the Department of Justice has not won a single search-and-seizure case; in reversing the Government, the court has opened jail doors wide to let known felons out. In the Trupiano case, G-men pinched a gang of bootleggers whom they had watched manufacturing alcohol for months. The court would not admit the alcohol as evidence because the G-men had no search warrant when they seized it. That much zeal for civil rights, Government agents felt, transcended common sense. The majority...
...Secret. The Government's cold and correct prosecutors called a series of cold and correct G-men to the stand to present a damning case. As a Justice Department political analyst, Barnard-educated Judy Coplon had kept her desk loaded with scores of secret documents; she had been trailed by the FBI, been seen keeping clandestine appointments with a Soviet United Nations employee, Valentin A. Gubichev...
Track meets can be doped out pretty accurately on paper. And on paper, Bob Giegengack's G-men are way too powerful for the Varsity to handle. Olympic shot putter Jim Fuchs, for instance, has been heaving the iron ball 55 feet this winter. That's the type of material Yale has this year, right down the line...