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Last week G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself added a lurid footnote to the shoe shortage: shoes, he said, were the third biggest item in a mounting flood of hijacking. (The first two: liquor and rayon...
...black market ticket-selling was the work of "an unethical gang of thugs from the North, and not by hotel porters or Miamians." He had hardly subsided when FBI men arrested as scalpers 16 Miami ticket agents and clerks, 14 Miami hotel flunkies, and one Miami cabby. J. Edgar Hoover said the Miami gang had been making a profit of $15,000 to $20,000 a month; three of the scalpers were even planning to buy a hotel with their swag...
Herbert Clark Hoover, fishing tripper, and the Duke of Windsor, his luncheon host in the Duke's Bahaman bailiwick, forthrightly, erectly double-breasted the news camera...
...senior. She was all nerves. Since her husband was one of Washington's most successful criminal lawyers, she yearned for a suburban home in fashionable Chevy Chase, Md. But Robert Ingersoll Miller, 67, onetime law partner of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, good friend of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to stay in the drab Victorian brown-brick house on shabby 8th Street. Friends advised Mrs. Miller to take her emotional problems to a good psychiatrist...
...Henry (Mrs. Herbert) Hoover, in a letter to her sons Allan and Herbert Jr., disposed of an estate valued "in excess of $10,000." Filed as a will in San Jose, Calif., her letter declared: "... I have a will somewhere. I have not seen it in years. ... So I will replace it with this. . . . You have been lucky boys to have had such a father and I am a lucky woman to have had my life's trail alongside the paths of three such men and boys. ... To your Daddy I bequeath all my interest and rights...