Fortnight ago lively Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped briskly before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee to plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced...
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