Word: hooverness
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...Dewey's announcement was to scare the living daylights out of Lepke. He figured he would get a lighter rap from the Federals than from zealous Mr. Dewey. Last week Lepke walked into the Federal Building accompanied by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover. As soon as news of his capture leaked out, New York City's officials...
...story of how G-Man Hoover caught Lepke did not come out until 24 hours later, and then it was a clean scoop for the Daily Mirror's, Columnist Walter Winchell, who dearly loves to play cops. One night about three weeks ago a mysterious voice hissed to Winchell over the telephone: "Lepke wants to come...
...tell Hoover," said Winchell...
First. A President didn't get that way through being "unpolitical." Herbert Hoover's Addresses Upon the American Road, 1933-1938, is crowded with proof that an ex-President never stops campaigning for the good old party-and to hell with the country...
...trail of quarry which, if he caught it, would plaster the newspapers once more with heroic Dewey headlines. Last week Mr. Dewey found the trail uncomfortably crowded. Trotting along at his side were all the human bloodhounds of the F. B. I., headed by John Edgar Hoover himself, and with Franklin Roosevelt's Attorney General Frank Murphy whipping them on. Overnight, national politics made a national figure out of their common quarry: a big-nosed, big-eared, Russian-Jewish underworldling named Louis ("Lepke,* the Leopard") Buchalter...