Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been working on the spy case 16½ hours a day for 14 weeks. He had not seen his family for four months. His doctor had told him he must rest, long and completely. So he wrote a letter of resignation to his boss, Director John Edgar Hoover...
...part Indian, and while I might not agree with Browder or what he has to say I'll fight for his right to say it. And furthermore if TIME decides its covers on sex appeal alone-I'd pick Browder over Onion-head Hoover or Fudge-face Landon...
...Passed the $276,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill with two notable increases: an additional $3,075,000 to encourage Army re-enlistments by boosting the pay for men and non-commissioned officers who enlist more than once, and an additional $200,000 for J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...unrecognizable except for the white-&-rose pajamas Skeegie wore when someone took him from his crib (TIME, June 13). But not even a sharp-eyed buzzard found the remains, till late one night last week, a surgeon, a State prosecutor and twelve G-men led by Chief John Edgar Hoover came crashing through the bush with flashlights...
...days more he tried to implicate others, then "cracked" again. He had done the whole thing, all alone, to "get things" for his wife. But he had not murdered the child; that was accidental, he said. Skeegie "must have smothered" while he was quieting him with handkerchiefs. ¶Chief Hoover had Prisoner McCall spirited to the 19th floor of Miami's skyscraper jail to prevent his lynching by an angry Miami...