Word: sleuths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets hunting for a bandit car reported seen with bullet holes in its windshield and rear windows. ¶In Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Federal agents swooped down on a hospital to seize Dillinger's pal, George ("Baby Face'') Nelson whose presence was reported by an amateur sleuth. They found the patient to be a traveling salesman for a correspondence school, taken ill on the road...
...object of a cause célèbre of his own when lie was arrested in Hyde Park with one Thelma de Lava on charges of indecency, public impropriety and attempting to bribe a policeman. Knowing that Sir Basil was not only a distinguished sleuth but the son of a late Archbishop of York, the British Penny Press gloated. Sir Basil claimed a frame-up. He was fined ?5 and costs...
...directions at the slightest rumor. It was expected that the Colonel would neglect his dog hunt on Tuesday in favor of the Eliot Centenary Exercises, but when the crowd gathered in the court of Eliot House for the unveiling of the new bust of President Eliot the noted sleuth was not to be seen. Everything was very dignified and nobody in the solemn gathering seemed aware of the Colonel's absence. Silence fell over the group as they prepared to listen to the speech of presentation. The Colonel was still not present and it seemed that for the first time...
John Edgar Hoover, handsome young chief of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, declined a medal awarded him by the United States Flag Association as a prime force for law enforcement. Said Sleuth Hoover: "We feel fully repaid when our endeavors are successful and inure to the public good...
...live slander suits pended against him in Washington and Baton Rouge. All eight Louisiana Congressional Districts were organizing anti-Long clubs. The scrappy Women's Committee of Louisiana retained General Samuel Tilden Ansell, dismissed prosecutor of the Senatorial investigation of Louisiana politics, and John G. Holland, dismissed sleuth of the same committee, to press its ouster charges against Huey Long and his henchman John Holmes Overton in the Senate...