Word: urschel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed newspaper piece last week, Chief Hoover wrote: "George ('Machine Gun') Kelly is supposed to have coined the name G-men while Special Agents of the FBI were pursuing him for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel of Oklahoma City. Kelly and his wife had fled from town to town until Kelly, who was a blowhard and a coward, got panicky...
...Slick was a frenzied wildcatter from Pennsylvania whose boomtime oil financing became the wonder of the Southwest. He held lawyers, geologists and physicians in equal scorn and died of overwork in 1930, bequeathing his name to two oil fields, a withered oil town and Slick-Urschel Oil Co. In Oklahoma last fortnight the name Slick disappeared from the oil business through a merger of Slick-Urschel with the new Transwestern Oil of Oklahoma...
...resignation when the full proportions of the catastrophe became clear. Thereafter he adopts an impersonal tone, discourses on the duties of Federal agents, gives an unilluminating sketch of his own background, discusses the habits of gangsters and the weakness of law enforcement, retells the stories of the Factor, Bremer, Urschel and Robinson kidnappings, the deaths of Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. Best parts of American Agent are its thumbnail biographies of public enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed...
Nominee Lee's Republican opponent in November will be another youngster, 38-year-old Herbert K. Hyde. A part-Indian who once studied elocution under Professor Lee, Nominee Hyde successfully prosecuted the kidnappers of Oilman Charles Frederick Urschel (TIME, Oct. 2 & 9, 1935). Last week he planned to out-josh Josh Lee, blanket Oklahoma with flamboyant oratory. Lee's slogan: "From hoe-handle to the U. S. Senate." Hyde's slogan: "From bootblack to U. S. Senator...
...Oklahoma City's schools, president of her Chamber of Commerce, international president of the Lions Clubs. On the Federal bench, to which Calvin Coolidge appointed him in 1928, Judge Vaught has a reputation for fairness: a big, bluff record which includes life-sentencing the kidnappers of Charles Urschel, bluntly telling a local company to pay no attention to the late NRA, restraining the U. S. from collecting coal taxes under the late Guffey Act. Last week he presided at the trial of Lonzo Carl Giles, onetime Federal Relief administrator in Oklahoma, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government...