Word: akerson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he had informed President Hoover that 17 U. S. District Attorneys should be promptly dismissed and that the President had replied that five were already out. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah a letter. Senator Borah replied. What the letters said was closely guarded, though it was Secretary George Akerson at the White House who revealed the exchange. Best guess as to their contents: President Hoover asked Senator Borah if he had not violated the rule against disclosing conversations with the President. Senator Borah replied with a discussion of the ethics of anonymous publicity...
...Presidency was moved 200 ft. westward last week when President Hoover officially crossed West Executive Avenue. Flanked by Secretaries George Akerson and Walter Newton, the President marched up the steep outside steps of the State, War & Navy building, climbed the sharply curving inside stairway to the third floor, entered the ornate office of General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. There he was officially greeted by his Secretaries of State and of War who work in the same building. Clerks peeped in at him, buzzed with excitement at having "the Chief" under their roof...
Fire apparatus clanged into the White House grounds. Into the burning building dashed Secretaries Akerson and Richey and the President's son, Allan, to salvage the President's papers. President Hoover rubbed his hands, stroked his hair nervously, called to the firefighters: "Save my files!" He saw the drawers of his desk lugged out safely. It was very cold. Water froze on the hose lines, smeared the furnace-like structure with tentacles of ice. Without rubbers, the President's feet got wet and cold. At the height of the conflagration he remembered his little guests...