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...Prohibition sleuth. In this book, dedicated "to the 4,932 persons I arrested, hoping they bear me no grudge for having done my duty." Izzy chucklingly describes his dizzy career. Stanley Walker, the New York Herald Tribune's able city editor, enthusiastically introduces him, calls him "most engaging snooper in history. ... If every agent had been as industrious, as capable and as intelligent as Izzy, this country would be Dry today, if the courts could have handled the cases, God forbid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Izzy the Agent | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

Only four of the twelve Presidents have completed their seven-year terms: Emile Loubet, Armand Fallieres, Raymond Poincare and Gaston Doumergue. If the President is a snooper he can have great fun?for a duplicate of every letter, telegram or cablegram received by the French Foreign Office goes by right and custom to the Elys?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: 13th President | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

French priests were ordered last week by Franç Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris, to begin an "extensive survey" of the spread of the "cocktail evil" in their parishes. Neither a snooper nor a prude, His Eminence thus showed that he is in harmony with the great body of French public opinion which holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocktails, Confidence, Aberration | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...January one Boyd Fairchild, Dry snooper, reported to the State's Attorney a purchase of liquor at the home of one Joseph De King, 38, in Aurora. For this information he was paid $5. A "John Doe" warrant was sworn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fatal Zeal | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Libel | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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