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...many of their city officials were connected with Legion activities, began an inquiry of their own. The appearance of Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea's name on a Legion membership blank caused a fine furor in Detroit. To Washington went frantic wires from the Midwest begging the G-Men to step in. Introduced in the U. S. House and Senate was a joint resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
Sirs: TIME'S characters are interesting even if they are not real. The portrayal of the G-men in TIME rings truer than any, I am sure. I went to school with Hoover. We men who received C's called Hoover, who received A's, "fatty pants." In my class was a lad named Clyde Tolson [special agent in charge of the Washington bureau], Hoover's right-hand man, and if TIME or FORTUNE ever really gets behind the scenes you'll have to find even a better word than "able" for Clyde Tolson. . . . Incidentally...
This left as the nation's Public Enemy No. 1 a female impersonator: Thomas H. Robinson Jr., who snatched Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in Louisville, Ky. in 1934. Said Director Hoover: "It's only a matter of time. . . ." It was a matter of a few-days before G-men captured Robinson in Glendale, Calif. He had doffed the women's clothes in which he had frequently eluded his pursuers, disguised himself instead with a mustache. On Robinson his captors found $4,200 of the $50,000 Stoll ransom...
There Director Hoover, whose sense of showmanship is fullgrown, announced that the $5,000 price he had resoundingly placed on Karpis' head week before (TIME, May 4) would be paid no one, since he and his G-Men had traced and captured the killer without assistance. It was indicated that Karpis, born Raymond Karpavicz 26 years ago in Canada, would be tried for the $100,000 snatching...
...revealed Alvin Karpis had been fishing and hunting on the Gulf and in Florida for several months, had moved to New Orleans several weeks ago. His face had been lifted, his fingertips mutilated. The G-Men said that Karpis had paid a Chicago gang doctor $350 for the face-lifting operation, that the job was not worth...