Word: akerson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to Mr. Clark, President Hoover now has working for him and re-election the following: Everett Sanders, President Coolidge's No. 1 secretary, as chairman of the Republican National Committee; George Akerson, onetime Hoover secretary, as publicity director at New York headquarters; Walter Newton, onetime Minnesota Representative, as political secretary; Lawrence Richey, one-time detective, as personal secretary.; French Strother, onetime editor, as literary secretary...
...Record Man, Busier than a busy bee at Roosevelt headquarters in Manhattan last week was small, wrinkle-faced Louis McHenry Howe, the Governor's personal secretary and political handyman. What Mrs. Belle Moskowitz was to Alfred Emanuel Smith, what George Edward Akerson was to Herbert Hoover, what Edward ("Ted") Clark was to Calvin Coolidge, Louis Howe is to Franklin Roosevelt. A newshawk for the old New York Herald, he attached himself in 1911 to Mr. Roosevelt who took him along to the Navy Department. They have been together ever since, call each other "Franklin" and "Louis," share the Governor...
...President's ear. When the convention started, Candidate Hoover was left alone in Washington, with only a Congress preponderantly Democratic and two members of his Cabinet-Navy's Adams, an "independent," and Justice's Mitchell, a onetime Democratic to keep him company. Lonely, he summoned George Akerson, his onetime secretary, to serve as contact...
Republican leaders anxious to enhance the President's personal popularity for 1932 were responsible for the "humanizing" effort. It was with "humanizing" well in mind that Theodore Goldsmith Joslin, longtime Washington newsgatherer, was chosen to succeed George Akerson (who also was a journalist) as chief White House secretary and spokesman. Secretary Joslin was credited in last week's stories with manufacturing news tid-bits to put President Hoover in a warm light, inducing him to do more new and friendly things for their publicity value. To Secretary Joslin were ascribed the White House invitation to Bryan Untiedt...
Born in Massachusetts 41 years ago, Mr. Joslin has a round, solemn face, a friendly manner, a figure as plump as Mr. Akerson's. His outlook on government is serious, heavy. Married, father of two sons, he gets fun out of tending a small but elaborate flower garden behind his Chevy Chase home. When President Hoover returns from his Caribbean cruise Mr. Joslin will retire from the Colorado Building's so-called "Brain Trust"* to begin his White House duties...