Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This polite exchange between two Cabinet members ended an impolite brawl between two potent departments of the Government. For the past three years the activities of John Edgar ("Speed") Hoover and his Federal Bureau of Investigation have put all other U. S. governmental investigating agencies in the shade. Virtually ignored by the U. S. public has been the Treasury's tried & true Secret Service, which tracks down counterfeiters, guards the person of the President. The Secret Service's jealousy knew no bounds when it was lately rumored that all U. S. spy divisions, including those...
...posing as a magazine writer in search of new material, confided it to a onetime G-Man. It was not long before the Secret Service's scheme was known at the Department of Justice. Enraged, Attorney General Cummings declared he would resist any attempts to discredit J. Edgar Hoover or his men. Professing great surprise, the Treasury investigated its own investigators. In addition to writing Homer Cummings an apology, Secretary Morgenthau demoted Assistant Chief Murphy to a district post, Sleuth Boatwright to that of a field operative...
...Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University's School of Engineering, niece of Herbert Hoover; and Ernest A. Dunbar; in San Jose, Calif...
Though he voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928 because he believed that a fellow engineer was needed in the White House, Engineer Lasser supported Socialist Norman Thomas in 1932, will support him again this year. Says this onetime inter-planetarian: "I have decided that it is necessary to remake the Earth before delving into life on the Moon...
Mark Requa, onetime California Republican National Committeeman, remarked in Salt Lake City that his friend Herbert Hoover is in the market for "a good mine...