Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under reporters' excited queries Director Hoover declared the Department of Justice had for two months been hot on the trail of Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, wanted for robbery, kidnapping and murder. Few days before the Karpis capture Director Hoover chartered a twin-motored Douglas transport plane in New York, flew to New Orleans, told his pilots to be on instant call at an inconspicuous hotel...
PROFESSOR SALVEMINI has written an economic study of Italian Fascism that is deeply convincing and sparkling with enthusiasm. From the first page he leaps onto the trail of Mussolini's "corporate state" and runs it down, point for point, with a vigor and venom that make his scholarly work one of the most fascinating treatments of modern Italy...
Santa Monica, in whose confines live rich and poor alike, enjoying life in its fullness, life at its best. The end of the trail for thousands from every nook & cranny of the world. The residence, by choice, by preference, of the outstanding movie colony of the great industry within our gates...
...Campbell, companion of Karpis in the Bremer kidnapping, remained at large. Alvin Karpis is a product of Chicago's Wrest Side. His mother did time in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma prisons. After fingerprints found on a gasoline tin connected him with the Bremer case, Federal agents got on his trail, narrowly missed him in the Ozarks, in Cleveland. For a time he hid in a $300-per-month villa in Cuba. In the winter of 1934 he and crippled Harry Campbell shot their way out of a police trap in an Atlantic City hotel, leaving Karpis' pregnant woman...
Last June in Topeka, Kans. Federal agents found one of the purloined certificates squashed in the straw-hat lining of a minor pugilist named Melvin Smith. With this evidence to provide the scent, the Federal operatives relentlessly followed a tortuous trail to Manhattan, to California, to Florida, back to Manhattan, to the Bahamas. Last week, in Manhattan again, the agents came to a full stop. Eight thieves had been put under lock & key, $310,000 of the $590,000 recovered. No. 1 man, whom the G-Men called "one of the shrewdest security thieves in the country," was a shifty...