Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foot It Feetly. At California's University of Redlands, Dr. Lawrence E. Nelson predicted that gasoline rationing would create a poetry boom. Reason: poets will do less driving, more creative pacing up & down...
...night two of them, William Stewart and Matthew Nelson, forgot themselves and went out on the town. At 10 o'clock Stewart dragged Nelson home drunk. The others' faces went grim; they reached for their pistols. They sat Nelson up on a sofa, beat his head with butt and barrel. Stewart, sick at his stomach with fear, slipped to the bathroom, jumped out the window, ran away...
...gang quickly cleared out of that apartment. Behind, as evidence of what had happened to Nelson, they left a blood-soaked pillowcase, two blood-soaked, handkerchiefs, stains on sofa and floor. After that, nerves were nearly as raw as Nelson's tortured head and face. The gang split up, took two new apartments. They never saw Stewart again. Somehow Nelson got away, too, and fled to Minneapolis. And somehow the Federal Bureau of Investigation got the clue it needed...
...Trail. First the FBI picked up Nelson and Stewart. Then, with FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover directing, it laid careful traps around the two North Side apartments. One night last week the traps were sprung...
When Donald Nelson gets a letter from John Doe in San Francisco asking for an appointment, D. & B. tells Mr. Nelson (in the short space of one hour, if need be) whether John is a substantial citizen or a time-wasting crackpot. When a new or expanding Federal agency has to hire a big staff in haste, D. & B. rechecks on its appointees at leisure. It checks up on the character as well as the financial status of war contractors for Government agencies handing out contracts, checks on new employes for a contractor faced with a sudden increase...