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There Director Hoover, whose sense of showmanship is fullgrown, announced that the $5,000 price he had resoundingly placed on Karpis' head week before (TIME, May 4) would be paid no one, since he and his G-Men had traced and captured the killer without assistance. It was indicated that Karpis, born Raymond Karpavicz 26 years ago in Canada, would be tried for the $100,000 snatching...
Ready to fly back to New York, Director Hoover was in a more garrulous mood...
...Karpis said he'd never be taken alive," observed John Edgar Hoover, "but we took him without firing a shot. That marked him as a dirty, yellow rat. He was scared to death." This week the House voted to raise Director Hoover's pay from $9,000 to $10,000 per year...
...formal entrants in its Presidential primaries, provides a space on the ballot in which the voter may indicate his preference. Last week 76,710 Massachusetts Republicans wrote in the name of Alfred Mossman Landon. That was more than ten times as many as scribbled the name of Herbert Hoover, nine times the total for the next three choices-Borah, Vandenberg, Knox...
...unwilling newsmaker is short, stocky Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford's School of Engineering. When the Globe (Ariz.) Record last year published an interview quoting him as saying that his brother Herbert would not run for President in 1936, Brother Theodore exploded: "A complete fabrication!" Last week Theodore Hoover made undeniable news by announcing that, having reached the age of 65, he would retire from Stan ford in June. Promptly newshawks amended: ". . . To go fishing with his brother Herbert...