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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...means complete, over to Attorney General Cummings to check up. Director John Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, flashed orders to his 22 district offices to put every available one of his 350 Government agents on the job. Even the Federal sleuth who for weeks had been guarding the secret records of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee's investigation of J. P. Morgan & Co. was transferred to hoarder-hunting. Investigators marched in upon suspects, flashed their badges, read the President's proclamation aloud, ordered them to disgorge. Of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Hoarders Hunted | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Patrolman Thomas Erwin strolled down Fifth Avenue at midnight, saw two men shin up an elevated pillar, climb to the roof of a delicatessen store. Following, Sleuth Erwin found the two removing panes of glass from the roof's skylight, arrested one, missed the other. In court, Climber Luciani Perlizzi, 21, explained that he had a girl, that she was bringing a "blind date" (unknown girl) for his companion, that his companion insisted on seeing her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...considerably more amazement in the Wampus editorial office than either the earthquake or Professor Dickinson's mathematical capers of 1932. "Mmm" and the contest TIME had reference to were the none too healthy brain-childs of one Charles E. Van Landingham, Wampus editorial staff member and campus news sleuth at the University of Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Thomas Wentworth Russell may be an ardent and efficient dope sleuth. He is also a tactful Briton. Nowhere in his report did he mention India or Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Balkans Products, Ltd. | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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