16: FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE BUREAU
“many new angles”: Edwin Brown to Hoover, March 22, 1926, FBI/FOIA.
“a crook and”: Report by Wren, Oct. 6, 1925, FBI.
“dominated local”: Report titled “Osage Indian Murder Cases,” July 10, 1953, FBI.
“conditions have”: Hoover to White, Nov. 25, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“slender bundle”: Quoted in Nash, Citizen Hoover, 23.
Hoover wanted the new: For more information regarding Hoover’s transformation of the
bureau, see Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover; Powers, Secrecy and Power; Burrough, Public
Enemies; and Ungar, F.B.I. For more on the dark side of Progressivism, also see Thomas
C. Leonard’s journal articles “American Economic Reform in the Progressive Era” and
“Retrospectives.”
“days of ‘old sleuth’ ”: San Bernardino County Sun, Dec. 31, 1924.
“scrapped the old”: Quoted in Powers, Secrecy and Power, 146.
“He plays golf”: San Bernardino County Sun, Dec. 31, 1924.
“I regret that”: Hoover to White, Sept. 21, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“I have caused”: Hoover to White, May 1, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“You either improve”: Quoted in Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, 149.
“I believe that when”: Hoover to White, April 15, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“I’m sure he would”: Quoted in Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, 67.
“supposed to know”: Tracy, “Tom Tracy Tells About—Detroit and Oklahoma.”
“honest till”: Adams, Tom White, 133.
“I feel that I”: White to Hoover, Sept. 28, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“with the betterment”: White to Hoover, June 10, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“I do not agree”: Memorandum for Hoover, May 12, 1925, FBI/FOIA.
“The first thing”: Quoted in Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, 170.
“directed against”: Quoted in Powers, Secrecy and Power, 154.
17: THE QUICK-DRAW ARTIST, THE YEGG, AND THE SOUP MAN
“diaspora”: Mary Jo Webb, interview with author.
“I made peace”: Osage Chief, July 28, 1922.
“Gregg is 100 percent”: Report by Weiss and Burger, Aug. 12, 1924, FBI.
“A very small man”: White to Grove, June 23, 1959, NMSUL.
“a cold cruel”: Criminal record of Dick Gregg, Jan. 9, 1925, KHS.
“gone places”: White to Grove, June 23, 1959, NMSUL.
“my life would”: Report by Weiss and Burger, July 24, 1924, FBI.
“Bill Smith and”: Statement by Dick Gregg, June 8, 1925, FBI.
“That’s not my style”: Quoted in article by Fred Grove in The War Chief of the Indian