Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were several reasons. For one, his name had been found in the records of James V. Hunt, prime subject (TIME, July 25) of the Senate's five-percent investigation. For another, according to the New York Herald Tribune, he had once tried to smuggle a bottle of precious perfume oils into the country from Europe by saying it was only champagne he was taking to Mrs. Truman...
...Witch Hunt? Sometimes, caught up as he is now in the pursuit of private beliefs, and the difficult measurements of loyalty, G-man Hoover looks like a man who longs for the simple combat of gangster days, when a criminal could sometimes be flushed out into the open and caught with a gun in his hand, instead of a lie on his tongue. But, conscientious cop and efficient public servant that he is, J. Edgar Hoover regards his new mission, and the attacks he receives because of it, as part of his job. He knows that he cannot afford...
...with a screech of brakes. Like the celebrated clown act in the Ringling Bros, circus, nearly a dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
Senate investigators had been heating up a griddle for the two major generals since last month, when the New York Herald Tribune broke the story of ex-Army Colonel James V. Hunt, a five-percenter whose "dear friends" assertedly helped him get contracts. The two major generals were high up on Hunt's list...
Also among Hunt's professed friends was Major General Harry Vaughan, the President's military aide. His curious remark on the subject a fortnight ago was probably intended to be metaphorical, not a reference to any official; but it now bore the ring of prophecy. "Why pick on a sergeant [i.e., Hunt]," Vaughan had demanded, "when at least two major generals are in the same racket...