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Editorials
May 19, 1956 issue

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The marriage of a U.S. actress to the prince of Monaco is news, big news, but when a federal district judge publicly rebukes Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chairman J. Edgar Hoover only a few newspapers deign to record his comments. Out in Butte, Montana, federal judge William D. Murray became annoyed with Hoover's well-known habit of issuing a barrage of press releases on the eve of trials in which the FBI has a special interest. In this instance, the head of the FBI was quoted in Washington as saying that a Smith Act defendant who was to be tried in Butte had traveled in many communities in Montana and Idaho in carrying out his duties as a Communist Party organizer.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; HOOVER, J. Edgar; UNITED States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; MURRAY, William D.; JUDGES -- United States; UNITED States
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