Word: donovan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington for about a week, then to depart for Florida and a final pre-inaugural vacation. He has engaged a suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and will hold conferences at his home and at the hotel. One of the first S Street visitors was Assistant Attorney General William J. Donovan. . . . When President-Elect Hoover becomes President Hoover on March 4 his age will be 54 years, seven months. He will be three months older than the average of all Presidents at the time of their inaugurations...
...California sky, all the way from the Atlantic seaboard by air, dropped Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant Attorney-General in the Coolidge Cabinet and "the next Attorney-General" in the press. He said he was there to work on some cinema cases. But everyone knew that President-Elect Hoover had sent for him, his friend and confidant, to discuss political this and governmental that before departing good-willingly for South America...
...Donovan grinned when newsgatherers begged him to admit that he would be the Hoover Attorney-General. Said he: "I appreciate the compliment you fellows are paying me. . . . But I do want to make it plain that Mr. Hoover has not asked me. . . . That is a fact...
Newsgathering curiosity was further piqued by the arrival at Palo Alto, just after Col. Donovan got there, of that other equally famed Assistant Attorney-General, Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, "personification of Prohibition." In view of the Hoover promise to appoint a commission to investigate the "grave abuses" now suffered by the "experiment noble in motive," newsgathering speculation ran to unanswered questions like this: Was the President-Elect asking Mrs. Willebrandt to tell Col. Donovan all she knew about Prohibition so that the redoubtable Colonel could make plans for stricter enforcement? Or was this conference preliminary to a great "Hoover...
Borah or Morrow for State; Mellon for Treasury; D. F. Davis for War; the present Wilbur's brother for the Navy; Donovan for Attorney-General; New or Good for Postmaster-General; Work again for Interior; J. J. Davis for Labor; one of three Juliuses-Klein, Barnes, Rosenwald -for Commerce; some midwesterner for Agriculture, perhaps Publisher Dante Melville Pierce of Des Moines-so ran theory and conjecture. A "truthful declaration" was not expected for some time, perhaps not until the President-elect's return from South America (see page...