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FROM THE ARCHIVESep 27, 1960·Key West, Florida

HOOVER TO RETIRE

Scanned from The Key West Citizen Current, Sep 27, 1960
HOOVER TO RETIRE
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TH KEY WRIT CITIZRM TuMday RepHmbr V I6A Page 6 Brat NORMAN D ARTMAN Editor and Pubbsher MARGARET FORESMAN City Editor JOHN CELLAR Advertising Manager RAYFORD ROBERTS Circulation Manager PERCY CURRY Mechanical Superintendent MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Theis Simpson Co inc 1 E 54th St. New York 22 N Y Branch Offices in Principal Cities Hoover. To Retire For many years J Edgar Hoover has stood for everything that is right. As director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation he has stood as this coun trys bulwark against crime and the fed eral penitentiaries of the nation are filled with men that the F 81 under his leadership brought to justice.

It can truthfully be said that J Edgar Hoover was of no political favor insofar as his important work for the federal government was concerned. It made no difference whether a man was a Demo crat a Republican a Socialist or a what not if through careful and thorough investigation it was found that the man had violated a federal law woe betide him. In recent years Hoover has fought juvenile delinquency in the United States and in the public prints of the land he has.

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