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Preceding Hildegarde in the list of entertainers, G-Man Hugh H. Clegg related some of the more daring deeds of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and described the work of Edgar Hoover's public-enemy-snatching machinery in Washington...
...Newbold Morris of Manhattan (president of the New York City Council) reported that a committee of which he is treasurer had $250,000 to pay for transporting the 20,000 children if admitted, and 1,400 unsolicited offers of adoption. Herbert Hoover chimed in. Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago sent word: "These children have done no wrong...
Last week, Attorney General Frank Murphy, accompanied by Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, suddenly appeared in Kansas City, Mo. This was but one stop for them, they said, on a whirlwind, 48-hour "inspection trip" to five big Midwest cities. Mr. Murphy explained that his mission was to tell his U. S. District Attorneys to snap into their work, clean up their dockets, above all not to cringe and flinch before any political overlords...
...Retorted to Herbert Hoover in defense of her husband's Stop-Hitler policy...
...that is a far cry from Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Hoover, in the forum of foreign relations Mrs. Roosevelt has been even more vocal. She openly...