Word: akerson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover last week reached into the corps of Washington correspondents and plucked out a trusted friend as his new No. i private secretary to succeed George Akerson. He was Theodore Gold- smith ("Ted") Joslin who for 15 years has covered the capital for the arch-Re-publican Boston Evening Transcript...
Last week President Hoover parted with his closest, ablest private secretary. George Akerson departed for New York to take his $30,000-per-year job with Paramount-Publix Corp. White House newsgatherers gave George Akerson a farewell present: a large engraved cocktail shaker...
...forecast, George Akerson, President Hoover's No. 1 secretary, went cinema last week. He resigned his $10,000 White House job to take a $30,000 position as public relations executive with Paramount-Publix Corp. President Hoover, whom as Secretary of Commerce Mr. Akerson had helped greatly to build up popularly and politically to receive the Republican nomination, spoke of his "great regret at losing an old friend." Adolph Zukor, P.-P. president, hailed his new executive as "a splendid example of manpower...
...Christmas Eve when President Hoover returned to the White House from Sherman Square where he had lighted Washington's community tree and broadcast a 37-word holiday greeting to the land, there was a dinner for the children of the President's secretaries and aides- the three Akerson boys, John Marshall Newton, French Strother Jr., Dr. Boone's daughter Suzanne, and the son of Capt. Train. Afterwards all the White House lights were extinguished and President Hoover, carrying a candle like the others, led his small guests round and about through the darkened rooms singing carols...
...prove his Chief's religious impartiality Secretary Akerson reminded Catholics of the Presidential greeting to Catholics at Omaha last month...