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...charged that he had evaded Neptune's court when he crossed the Equator two years ago; also, that he had sunburned the tonsils of his illustrious father's se'" -: tary with a reading glass while the secretary (George Akerson) slept on deck. First he had to lie in state, lily in hand, while the band played a dirge and newsmen who had boasted about having dress clothes with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby...
...Unaware of any call for etiquette, the Sullivan dolphin rushed across the Hoover line, fouled it, dragged the new Hoover reel off the new Hoover rod. As Pundit Sullivan landed his dolphin, the sun sank. The President-elect went home for supper. Allan Hoover, out fishing with Secretary George Akerson, caught nothing and thereby caused his mother to lose...
...friend of Commerce Department days would be relegated at the White House to give place to ever-so-aristocratic Bellhaven Behoover, was something few predicters would venture. The odds seemed the other way, that this dog would be First Dog, just as surely as faithful Secretary's Secretary George Akerson is slated to become President's Secretary and White House Spokesman...
...Hoover and the younger son, Allan Hoover, were in the party; also Secretaries George Akerson and Ruth Fessler; John G. Mott of San Francisco, the Hoover attorney; Commander Augustin T. Beauregard, naval aide to the President-Elect...
Nominee Hoover's secretary, George Akerson, sent Governor Bilbo a long, long telegram last week. He protested that Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour...