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...year gross and a rough reputation. During the 30s, such gangsters as John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd leased entire motels, used them as hideouts; many a motor-court operator reckoned the difference between profit & loss in the "two-hour-tourist" or "hot-pillow" trade. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover blasted the entire industry: "The tourist camp is today a new home of crime in America, a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder...
...days when there is a lot of glare, Thurber sometimes sees a face that looks to him like Herbert Hoover's; at other times, there appears what might be the George Washington Bridge flapping in the wind. Thurber is never bitter about his blindness, nor self-pitying, nor "saintly." Often he discusses it in a completely detached manner; now & then he uses it for little jokes. "I bet I can think up a cornier title for my memoirs than you can," he challenged a friend. "How about Long Time...
MAJOR GENERAL PATRICK J. HURLEY, onetime Secretary of War (under Hoover) and wartime ambassadorial troubleshooter (under Roosevelt), is a man with a lot of unwritten history in his system. He came into the hearing room in a mood that bristled like his dashing white mustache, promptly lit into the State Department. "A weak and confused foreign policy after Yalta," he added, ". . . is the primary cause for every international problem confronting our nation, and for every casualty we have suffered in Korea." Democrat Brien McMahon of Connecticut was lying in wait for him with quotes from Hurley's days...
...just as sore a point with some; one passenger described its men's room as "a place that would turn a vulture's stomach." But what irritates a few Cantonians most is the grudging attitude of Pennsylvania employees toward passengers. Said Assistant Vice President H. W. Hoover Jr. of the Hoover (vacuum cleaners) Co.: "They show . . . utter disregard of their responsibility to the public." Hoover executives are so indignant that they refuse to ride the Pennsy from Chicago to their headquarters at Canton...
...University of Chicago's WILLIAM F. OGBURN, 64, the top social statistician in the U.S., onetime director of research for President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends. In 40 years of teaching and research, Sociologist Ogburn has delved deep into everything from living costs to population movements and the tyranny of the machine. His plans after retiring: "I want to spend three months seeing every athletic event in Chicago, then I want to go to all the movies, then I would like to spend several years traveling-I haven't seen the Orient yet-and I want...