Word: provost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Colonel Harry Cooper (ret.), 52, onetime Secret Service agent (1921-42) and part-time personal bodyguard to four Presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt), wartime provost marshal in the CBI theater who uncovered a $10 million air-smuggling ring operated by Army Air Forces men and local racketeers; by his own hand (.45-caliber automatic); in Baltimore...
...Saturday special luncheons will follow the annual AHC business meeting. Provost Buck, Dean David, Dean Fair of the Engineering School, and vice-Dean Livingston Hall of the Law School will speak at special group luncheons devoted to General Education, Business, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. President Conant speaks at the banquet in the evening...
Paragraph 4: Provost Furniss' exact statement, as he sat in his office, was: "These gum-shoes are in and out of here every day." At the time, the conversation was concerned strictly with the FBI. The "every day" was placed in quotes purposely to indicate that it was not the author's report of a fact, but his repetition of what had been told him, in this case by the man most qualified to make such a statement...
Paragraph 5: The first statement was based on the opinions of such men as Provost Furniss, Professor of Philosophy Paul Weiss, Robert S. Cohen, and in fact most of the 30-odd men with whom the author spoke at Yale. Moreover, the FBI documents made public at the Judith Coplon trial last week prove that the FBI does use a large number of "confidential informants...
...that he knew of no organization besides the FBI which could have made the secret report on Mr. Cohen. The only further evidence we could possibly obtain would be either confessions by FBI agents that they had violated their own code of ethics or identification of the informant by Provost Furniss. And the Provest would have to break an oath to do the latter...