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...boss, Attorney General Jackson, had answered Senator Norris. Absolving himself from responsibility for the Detroit arrests (they had occurred during the Attorney Generalship of Frank Murphy; one of Jackson's first acts was to quash the indictments), and absolving Hoover from any misconduct, Jackson had written Senator Norris: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation will confine its activities to the investigation of violations of Federal Statutes. ... I have asked and been promised the continued and efficient service of Mr. Hoover...
...august halls of Parliament. In pushing the government to make constructive plans for peace, they have made it clear that they feel the first step must be a renunciation of much of England's national sovereignty and empire. On December 5, last Tuesday, Lord Halifax rose in Commons to quash their proposals: "We only court disaster if we forget that no paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples that alone can give it vigor and life; and international, like our own national, institutions must be very securely and deeply anchored on reality...
...Inner Circlers McNutt has been known as: 1) the man with that funny name, 2) a handsome Hoosier Hitler who once called out troops to quash a strike. By last week these New Deal intellectuals could no longer ignore Politician McNutt. What went on at the dinner-which Tommy Corcoran left early-only the guests knew-and they kept...
...revision, banking, forestry, fisheries, wild animal life-will play to smaller houses. Biggest show of all would have been the proposed investigation into the alleged Mexican oil dealings of Pennsylvania's onetime oilman, Senator Joe Guffey. In announcing the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee's decision to quash the investigation, Senator Connally of Texas wisecracked: "We've just dry-cleaned Joe." == Call for this inquiry arose from stories written by top-flight Reporter Marquis Childs in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey told the Senate...
...Judge Manton is not to be confused with County Judge George W. Martin, on trial in New York City last week for allegedly accepting a $1,000 bribe to quash an abortion indictment...