Word: gilchrist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most private of public men, President Hoover insists upon absolute seclusion for his run. On the journey south he talked fishing with his guests, napped, ignored clamorous citizens along the way who wanted to see him. At Jacksonville where he got off to stretch his legs, he bumped into Gilchrist Baker Stockton whom he had lately appointed U. S. Minister to Austria. Cried the President: ''Hello, Gilchrist, come on over and join the party." To Jacksonville's Mayor Alsop President Hoover remarked: "Gilchrist is a mighty fine...
...Last week President Hoover nominated: Senator Frederick Moseley Sackett of Kentucky for Ambassador to Germany: Gilchrist Baker Stockton, Florida Hoovercrat, oldtime Belgian and Austrian relief worker, Minister to Austria; Abraham C. Ratshesky, philanthropic Boston banker, onetime Assistant Massachusetts Food Administrator, Minister to Czechoslovakia; William E. Lee, Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, an Interstate Commerce Commissioner...