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...York Daily News, remarking how Policeman Hoover dallied in Miami, recalled his recent report that a shortage of personnel had left his department with 7,448 unassigned cases, plus 7,736 on which no work had been done for the last 45 days...
Last week, Policeman Hoover whose men eliminated the Baby Face Nelsons, John Dillingers, Pretty Boy Floyds, broke the kidnapping business of half a dozen years ago and blasted Public Enemies No. 1 as fast as they arose, returned to his spacious office at FBI headquarters. There a huge model of a cop's nightstick leans against the wall, a photograph of his mother, who died two years ago, rests on the desk and on a radio stands a framed sentiment, "The Penalty of Leadership," which says: "In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live...
...Policeman Hoover said he was gratified with the results of his trip. His tour had been all business. One proof: though he looked well-fed and robust, as usual, he showed no trace of suntan. The other: the results...
Once upon a time Mayor La Guardia assigned a Jewish policeman to guard the German Consulate in New York. To Clare Boothe the Mayor's little joke was a God-send. Around the consul she built an extenuated murder mystery which at one time was ready to involve all the non-Aryans in Hitland. She gave him six fellow characters all with good reason to kill him. Miss Boothe called it "Margin For Error," and after a long run in New York, almost as much a mystery as the plot, it reopened last night at the Plymouth...
Said the nurse calmly: "Patients can't be admitted unless accompanied by a policeman." "But this man is dying!" "You'll have to get a policeman...