Word: akerson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin Jr. In the opinion of newshawks assigned to cover it. the No. 2 GOP headquarters could do with some of the jacking up which the chairman had furnished in Chicago. One major trouble, complained they, was that Joe Martin's assistant publicity man, onetime Hoover Secretary George Akerson, treated the press as though he were still in the White House...
John L. Allen; George Akerson; George B. Blake; Edmond L. Cherbonnier; Francis R. Connolly; Paul G. Counthan; Peter F. Cunningham; Harold M. Curtiss, Jr.; Bernard M. Dobrusin; Roscius I. Downs, Jr.; Harold Edinberg; Francis F. Foley; Richard W. Galbraith, Jr.; Anthony Galluccio; Robert T. Gannett, 2nd.; Austin L. George, Jr., and Benjamin C. Gifford...
...Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife." chuckled Statesman Bilbo. "He couldn't say yes and he couldn...
...Fortnight ago President Roosevelt offered George Akerson, President Hoover's first secretary, a $6,000 job as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (TIME, Sept. 17). Last week Mr. Akerson turned it down because he had obtained another job with "much greater security for my family's future...
...Riding to the Capitol for the inauguration on March 4, 1933, President Hoover asked his successor to find a job for White House Secretary Walter Newton. President Roosevelt named Newton to the Home Loan Bank Board for one year (TIME, June 19, 1933). Last week President Roosevelt named George Akerson, President Hoover's first secretary, to a $6,000 job as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals...