Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It all adds up to this, TIME: somewhere in America are the family and friends of a young man who died in Manchuria; they may know of his Russian wife, and of his daughter. They are probably readers of TIME-what student of world affairs is not? and through its...
Through all this Frank Murphy was no shrinking violet. Last April he charged into the Midwest to be in at the Pendergast kill, taking with him G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, a great hand for being in on the kill himself. Everywhere Frank Murphy and John Edgar Hoover went they...
Last week the devout Attorney General was charging through the skies again, his G-Man beside him. When their plane halted at El Paso, Frank Murphy told the waiting press he was on the trail of "an enormous swindle." But Frank Murphy did not say what the "big swindle" was...
"We're interested," said Mr. Murphy, who long since had been inevitably labeled "St. Francis," "in uncovering any corrupt situation in any part of the country to which there is a Federal angle." In other words, observers cracked, Frank Murphy was going to catch crooks everywhere, while Tom Dewey...
Churchill Brown Mehard raked through a personal inheritance so fast and thoroughly that in 1937 his family had him deposed as executor of his father's estate (estimated at $1,000,000). Before that he had been a Pittsburgh socialite, a hard-drinking World War major in the A...