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...York Daily News, remarking how Policeman Hoover dallied in Miami, recalled his recent report that a shortage of personnel had left his department with 7,448 unassigned cases, plus 7,736 on which no work had been done for the last 45 days...
...Various newspapers squawked that Hoover's headquarters in Miami Beach had been a villa on The Nautilus (hotel) grounds, a palm-shaded island guarded from the world by a moat and a cop stationed at the bridge, and quoted rates for the villa at $175 a week, meals not included...
Last week, Policeman Hoover whose men eliminated the Baby Face Nelsons, John Dillingers, Pretty Boy Floyds, broke the kidnapping business of half a dozen years ago and blasted Public Enemies No. 1 as fast as they arose, returned to his spacious office at FBI headquarters. There a huge model of a cop's nightstick leans against the wall, a photograph of his mother, who died two years ago, rests on the desk and on a radio stands a framed sentiment, "The Penalty of Leadership," which says: "In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live...
Policeman Hoover said he was gratified with the results of his trip. His tour had been all business. One proof: though he looked well-fed and robust, as usual, he showed no trace of suntan. The other: the results...
Besides these arrests, Hoover and six agents had arrested 48 others: bank embezzlers, impersonators, parole violators, auto thieves, escaped convicts...