Word: hooverness
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Hour later, mystified newshawks were called into an office in New Orleans' Post Office building, recognized instantly a blackhaired, stoutish figure sitting behind a flat-topped desk. "I've got something interesting to tell you,* snapped John Edgar Hoover, director of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation...
...captured Alvin Karpis, generally known as Public Enemy No. i-but not to us." It was the first time that J. Edgar Hoover had personally made a catch since he joined the Department of Justice 19 years...
Under reporters' excited queries Director Hoover declared the Department of Justice had for two months been hot on the trail of Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, wanted for robbery, kidnapping and murder. Few days before the Karpis capture Director Hoover chartered a twin-motored Douglas transport plane in New York, flew to New Orleans, told his pilots to be on instant call at an inconspicuous hotel...
Shunted back into the hall after the Hoover announcement, newshawks waited an hour. Out the door suddenly burst a wedge of Federal agents, who clattered down the corridor with Director Hoover shouting angrily at photographers, "No pictures, no pictures!" Outside, agents threw manacled, coatless Alvin Karpis into a huge red automobile, went roaring off for Shushan airport. Next morning...
From this quartette, Herbert Hoover, William R. Borah, Alfred Landon, and Col. Frank Knox, the Republicans this summer may pick a presidential candidate. If they do, the candidate will be one college man who doesn't believe in tampering with the Constitution...