Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week, as Dies and the Justice Department continued to wrangle, FBI made a feeble attempt to get back into the E. Phillips Oppenheim area of romance, international intrigue and slinky sirens. At a dinner of the National Stevedores Association,* in Washington, one of G-Man Hoover's assistants, Inspector L. R. Pennington, "bared" a "girl spy plot." The stalwart inspector alleged that "a prominent society woman from a totalitarian country" had plotted to hire beautiful but subversive girls, had rented a house in Washington, was ready to install elaborate gambling facilities. Army, Navy, State Department officials were...
...Inspector Pennington named no names, did not say any arrests had been made. He contented himself with a policemanly remark that the plot had been "nipped in the bud." The G-Man's story fell with a dull thud. Mr. Dies zoomed on to more lectures, bigger raids...
Last week Frau Scholtz-Klink, aged 38, took a second husband: Reich Inspector of Military Academies August Heiszmeyer, 43, father of six. She announced: "We are marrying Dec. 6, thus giving our ten children a joint home." The Rcichsfrauenführerin became in fact the symbol of the perfect Nazi woman. What happened to her first husband was anybody's guess. Guess: He was in a concentration camp...
Head of the National Defense Operations Section of FCC's monitoring division is George E. Sterling, who helped organize the first radio intelligence unit of the Army in World War I, served as an inspector for the Department of Commerce before FCC took over radio. An inveterate ham, Sterling works in a welter of receivers, transmitters, microphones, recording devices. Temperate in his attitude about radio defense, he is inclined to be lenient with accidental shortcomings of his fellow enthusiasts, doesn't crack down unless violations are flagrant...
...FACE OF THE VERDICT-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley, scientist, again works with Supt.Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. Major Bedworthy is drowned near Blacksand. Accident, says the jury. Maybe, says his friend and neighbor. Priestley plows around in rubber boots among motives of sex and money...