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...What federal office is held by a Snook...
...sojourn of 18 months as a guest of the Government. He had been found guilty of violating a house rule when he had been there as manager in 1924, accepting tips from the guests-$10,500 worth-in exchange for soft berths. His present manager-host, Warden John W. Snook, saw to it that he was outfitted with a costume which will be inconspicuous so long as he remains within, and despatched him to the entresol where he was given a pick and shovel and told to pursue the tasks which he had so often assigned to others. Warden Snook...
Sacramento Snook...
...have a Snook in our town and he is wondrous wise. He, Frank S. Snook, has just been appointed Chief of the State Department of Motor Vehicles. Snook immediately canceled 3,000 special badges issued to favored motorists, which are supposed to make them immune from arrest. Then he issued orders that "arrests shall be made in a decent, manly fashion, without abuse and without insulting-language or attitude, which occasionally has caused resentment...
...thanks to able Warden Snook for enclosing with his report the Christmas copy of Good Words, a magazine published monthly at his penitentiary "with the approval of the Department of Justice." Excerpts...