Word: g
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...G-Man Turrou, 42, had been in the Bureau for nine years. Russian-born, an able linguist, he served in the Marines after the War and with Herbert Hoover's relief mission in Russia. In the Lindbergh Case, he helped dig up the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, wangled samples of Hauptmann's handwriting to match with the ransom notes. When the dirigible Akron was abuilding, he grew a beard and became a laborer to detect sabotage. For his work on a white slave ring in Connecticut (40 convictions), he was advanced to the highest...
Very much of a hero seemed tired ex-G-Man Turrou, until the day after his resignation, when the nature of his "opportunity to turn to writing" became known. For a reputed $40,000, Publisher Julius David Stern, ferociously anti-Nazi publisher of the Philadelphia Record and New York Post, had bought from Mr. Turrou, 15 minutes after he resigned, an "authentic" inside story behind U. S. Grand Jury Indictments of 14 German officials! On two excited pages, embellished with a Nazi air bomb plunging down on U. S. warships in the Panama Canal, Publisher Stern shouted: "ACE G...
...produced a copy of its G-Men's oath, signed by Leon Turrou. Excerpt: ". . . The strictly confidential character of any and all information secured by me in connection directly or indirectly with my work ... is fully understood by me, and neither during my tenure of service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation nor at any other time will I violate this confidence...
Even President Roosevelt, at a press conference, deplored the "patriotism and ethics" of a G-Man who would retire from the service to cash in on his country's secrets, declared the Army & Navy should get more money to spy on spies...
...Manhattan, another ex-G-Man, Tom Tracy, declared in the Daily News: "Because of our moral aloofness to the great international pastime of snoop-look-and-listen, America has become just one vast peek-easy...