Word: j
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLES D. HORNIG Elizabeth, N. J...
...could be happier than John Edgar Hoover, chief policeman of the land, who has found in Attorney General Frank Murphy the perfect, implacable, incorruptible yet deferent boss. Mr. Murphy takes Mr. Hoover with him on major punitive expeditions, such as the one to Kansas City to "get" Boss Thomas J. Pendergast. Mr. Murphy encourages Mr. Hoover to step out vigorously on lines of his own, as any smart policeman likes...
...week's end, Dr. J. M. ("Jingle Money") Smith had been indicted 36 times and was under $204,500 bail in the New Orleans jail. Louisiana was not content just to "throw the book" at dour Doctor Smith. Out went State officials, day after day, high and low. Indicted were 14 men ranging from a Standard Oil of Louisiana official to the president of the Louisiana Medical Society to the business manager of Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge kicked out its police chief just to keep in the swing...
...Finland just a few days before the races started, was not dismayed. He had been sailing boats for almost 50 years-had handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once he had gone around the Horn-from New York to Honolulu-in a square rigger...
Messrs. MacDonald and McKay's luck was of the kind that sounds more credible in books than in life. In Manhattan a retired orchid hunter gave them a map with orchid hotspots neatly indicated. In Bogota they fell in with 67-year-old J. B., "six feet three inches tall, lean and hard, definitely English." His hunches about orchid hiding places were nearly infallible. With this sort of luck and help the young men made good...