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This polite exchange between two Cabinet members ended an impolite brawl between two potent departments of the Government. For the past three years the activities of John Edgar ("Speed") Hoover and his Federal Bureau of Investigation have put all other U. S. governmental investigating agencies in the shade. Virtually ignored by the U. S. public has been the Treasury's tried & true Secret Service, which tracks down counterfeiters, guards the person of the President. The Secret Service's jealousy knew no bounds when it was lately rumored that all U. S. spy divisions, including those...
...posing as a magazine writer in search of new material, confided it to a onetime G-Man. It was not long before the Secret Service's scheme was known at the Department of Justice. Enraged, Attorney General Cummings declared he would resist any attempts to discredit J. Edgar Hoover or his men. Professing great surprise, the Treasury investigated its own investigators. In addition to writing Homer Cummings an apology, Secretary Morgenthau demoted Assistant Chief Murphy to a district post, Sleuth Boatwright to that of a field operative...
...Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University's School of Engineering, niece of Herbert Hoover; and Ernest A. Dunbar; in San Jose, Calif...
...worth of cotton, yet its total profit was only $13,000,000. Testifying before a Senate committee Will Clayton declared: "We made those profits, by the way, at least half of them, as the result of the Government cotton policy." Mr. Clayton was referring to Herbert Hoover's Farm Board, not to the New Deal's curtailment of production, which he dislikes even more than governmental plunging in the cotton market...
...training, tradition and conviction Will Clayton is a free trader. Any meddling with the economic machine is, to him, the supreme sin. Before the Bankhead Act] before the AAA crop reduction program, before cotton loans were instituted, before the Hoover Farm Board started to thrash around in the futures markets, Will Clay ton's favorite hate was the tariff. Said he, when ploughing-under was rampant: "There is only one means of preserving a correct balance between supply and demand in a great world commodity like cotton, and that is through the corrective influences of competitive price levels established...