Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the worry was deepseated. There was concern over America's own economy. There was a definite foreboding that the "minimum" arms program was a by-guess-and-by-God estimate wrapped in a dark warning and covered by a blank check. There was an uncomfortable suspicion that the...
Two Conditions. Such was the demoralized outfit that Assistant Director Hoover took over at 29, when the erupting scandals of Teapot Dome finally blew Daugherty out of office. Hoover told the new Attorney General, Harlan Fiske Stone, that he would take the job on two conditions: no politics and no...
By 1938 G-man Hoover could say that the day of the gangster was over. His G-men were the new popular heroes, immortalized ever since on the screen and on the air, and on a thousand box tops, bearing the morning cereal to American boys. The pursuers, not the...
First Pinch. Hoover had long since won over most of his earlier detractors. Even the local cops, who had once resented the G-men's headline-grabbing talents, were boosters now. The last time Congress even questioned an FBI appropriation was in 1936, when Tennessee's querulous Senator...
One bright blue morning last week, the crew of a National Airlines DC-4 had cause to file an indignant complaint: "three Grumman-type fighters" buzzed their plane as they were passing over Dover, Del. Another complaint soon followed : the captain of an Eastern Air Lines Constellation reported that a...