Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortly after 3 p. m. from her suburban house by a man with a revolver and a lead pipe. The Stolls did not ring famed NAtional 7117 in Washington, as every kidnappee's family is supposed to do. The first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message at 7 p. m. from a relative of Mrs. Stoll, onetime Ambassador Frederick M. Sackett Jr. Within 24 hr. the D. O. I. laboratories had the $50,000 ransom note, had found fingerprints and identified them, among nearly five...
Less than 1,200 people work for the D. O. I. Less than half of them are field operatives who report to 30 bureaus throughout the country. Their names are never known. But their bureau chiefs and inspectors must be known. Director Hoover has a teletype system to all bureau headquarters and D. O. I. men are encouraged to use the long distance telephone like grain speculators. Through this high-speed network Director Hoover began converging some 30 operatives on the scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector...
Last week the British Admiralty was urging Prime Minister MacDonald to demand a new agreement whereby Britain could have 70 cruisers, each somewhat smaller than those comprising the 50 to which she is limited by present treaties. Like Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, President Roosevelt was understood to stand firm last week on the basis of 35,000 tons as the proper size for each nation's capital ships, while Britain would like to cut this maximum...
...truth--unlike the Roosevelt or the Hoover Administration--is eternal." Philosophically calm, thus concludes the communication, "Dissenting Zealots," published in yesterday's Mall columns. It certainly warms my heart to read such manifestations of benign simplicity, such expression of hopeful belief in our modern world or professed disillusionment. Just the day before yesterday, another communicant, writing from Idaho, in a criticism of one of Professor Frankfurter recent speeches, expressed the same sentiment. I have no quarrel with such beauties of thought and soul--I myself dare even hope that perhaps one day that world of Truth and Virtue, and absolute...
...these reasons that your communicant advocates a rereading of the Republic and the Bible, even if Plato and Jesus did not live to see mass production and the completing problems of a machine age. For truth--unlike the Roosevelt or the Hoover Administration--is eternal. V. H. Kramer...