Word: shoreham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sergeant Jurney decided to beat one more covert before quitting for the day. The motorcade drove back to Washington to the Hotel Shoreham to ask Bernard B. Robinson, Hopson's "Washington representative", whether he knew where his boss was. At the desk of the Shoreham whom should Mr. Jurney bump into but beefy, bad-tempered Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who captured "Pimpernel" Hopson fortnight...
...automobile bearing agents of the U. S. Senate. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue whizzed an automobile bearing Washington police officers. Speed laws were ignored while pedestrians leaped for their lives. One- two-three, the automobiles screeched to a halt in front of the swank Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Investigating Committee or Chairman Black of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, depending on which one's agents first thrust a subpoena into...
Chairman O'Connor had been tipped off first. In the course of some routine questioning before his committee, A. G. & E. Representative Bernard B. Robinson had revealed that only the previous night he had talked at the Shoreham with the man whom most of the U. S. Government had been hunting for three weeks...
...What kind of a looking man is Hopson?" asked Chairman O'Connor, who lives at the Shoreham...
Chairman O'Connor's agents, joined by Chairman Black's and the Washington police, swarmed over the Shoreham, rapped at doors, questioned employes. The girl at the cigar counter had sold a cigar to a short, fat man with a fine disposition. Some bellboys thought they remembered such a man. The hunters looked in the Hopson closets, bathroom, under the Hopson bed. But "Pimpernel" Hopson had vanished once more...