Word: donovan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month, some say for three months, he had been at work on it. Two weeks before delivery he sent it to a printer, in greatest confidence. Back it came in long strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...
Frank Raichle is the law partner of Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General. He suffered bombardment when his innocent pleasure yacht was attacked, last month, by a Coast Guard Cutter (TIME, July...
...north, for "complete relaxation," on a 1,000-mile motor trip to the headwaters of the Klamath River. With him, in eleven cars, went newsgatherers, cameramen, President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University and several professors; Allan Hoover (youngest son); Assistant U. S. Attorney-General William J.("Wild Bill") Donovan; Representative John John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut; George Akerson (secretary) ; also fishing rods, flies, the acceptance speech (for further reworking) and a batch of "crank" letters. The latter amuse the Nominee. One man begged a new set of false teeth, which reminded the Nominee of a cheerer at the Hoover...
...room of the Hoover home. Negro butlers, directed by Mrs. Hoover, served lemonade. There were carnations in the vases. Associate Justice Stone, of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Mrs. Stone were there; also the Vernon Kelloggs, George Barr Baker, assistant to the Attorney General, William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Mrs. William E. Borah, and the Herbert Clark Hoover Jrs. Herbert Clark Hoover III and Peggy Anne Hoover were put to bed long before anything exciting happened...
...McCarthy, c.f. 4 1 0 0 0 0 Dunn, s.s 5 0 1 2 3 0 O'Neil, 3b. 3 2 2 0 2 0 Graham, 1b. 5 1 2 13 0 0 Duplin, l.f. 4 2 1 3 0 0 McLean, r.f. 5 1 2 2 0 0 Donovan, c. 5 0 3 5 0 0 Fogarty, p. 5 1 0 0 6 0 Totals...