Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like two other able arms of the U.S. Government, the Treasury's T-men (who pursue counterfeiters, tax dodgers and dope peddlers) and the Post Office Inspectors, the FBI usually "gets" its man before it grabs him. In some 9,000 cases last year, the FBI got 97.2% convictions. Certainly, in other hands, the FBI was a potential danger to every free citizen. It had not proved to be so in the hands of John Edgar Hoover...
Steaks & Jokes. Annie Hoover has always been the biggest thing in J. Edgar Hoover's life. Until her death in 1938, the man most feared by mobsters had continued to make his home with her in the house where he was born, on Washington's Seward Square. Two years later he bought a $25,000 house near fashionable Rock Creek Park. But Bachelor Hoover has never been seen escorting another woman to this day. His constant companion on occasional trips to the ballpark or for a weekend in Manhattan is the handsome, snap-brimmed...
...Two Conditions. Such was the demoralized outfit that Assistant Director Hoover took over at 29, when the erupting scandals of Teapot Dome finally blew Daugherty out of office. Hoover told the new Attorney General, Harlan Fiske Stone, that he would take the job on two conditions: no politics and no outside interference. Said Stone: "Those, young man, are the only conditions under which I would give...
...credit belonged more to local police and T-men than the FBI). Pretty Boy Floyd was cornered on an Ohio farm and riddled with FBI bullets. Baby Face Nelson was trapped and shot down in a Chicago suburb. In January 1935 Ma and Fred Barker were killed after a two-hour FBI siege in the little Florida town of Oklawaha...
...Two and a half hours later, a 31-year-old Pennsylvania airport manager named George Humphrey got the fright of his life as he putted along near Fort Dix, N.J. in a Piper Super-Cruiser. A Navy F6F Hellcat fighter came unexpectedly up beneath him and shot out ahead of his plane, giving him "a terrific prop wash...