Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey's announcement was to scare the living daylights out of Lepke. He figured he would get a lighter rap from the Federals than from zealous Mr. Dewey. Last week Lepke walked into the Federal Building accompanied by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover. As soon as news of his capture leaked out, New York City's officials...
Racketbuster Dewey interrupted his first political trip (see p. 13) to say that the Federal Government could lock Lepke up for only two years while he could jail him for 500. Thereupon, U. S. District Attorney John Cahill arraigned and indicted sweating Louis Buchalter on ten counts of narcotic smuggling that might tuck him in prison for 164 years. Dewey men cooled their heels in the U. S. Court...
Winchell telephoned his good friend John Hoover (for whom he withheld the news of Hauptmann's capture for 24 hours) and G-Man Hoover guaranteed Lepke asylum in a Federal jail. Then for two weeks Winchell was treated to a run-around by Lepke and his men. Finally, one day last week, he was called to the phone again. "If Lepke doesn't surrender by 4 p. m. tomorrow," barked Winchell, "Hoover says no consideration of any kind will ever be given...
...once paid him $30 a month to run a cultivator, do chores; he ate Mrs. Putnam's noonday "dinner" of home-cured ham, eggs, new potatoes, corn from the patch, fresh cherry pie. He played golf, suppressing his scores. Less pleasurably, he heard that FBI's John Edgar Hoover had jailed Lepke Buchalter...
...Traditionally Democratic Cleveland, Ohio last week found it must choose as its mayor in the October third primaries one of two Republicans, either incumbent Mayor Harold H. Burton or John O'Donnell of the School Board. Behind this novelty was a pretty piece of Democratic boggling. Two equally powerful party factions fought themselves into the ground, refused to compromise. Desperate leaders turned to the local version of Texas' Maury Maverick, Councilman William C. Reed, begged him to accept the nomination. On a strict "no strings" platform, Mr. Reed accepted tentatively, if a $25,000 campaign fund were raised...