Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edgar French Strother, 49, intermittently literary coach of onetime President Hoover and associate editor of the late World's Work (merged last year with Review of Reviews), Democrat; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...suite on the 33rd floor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a constitutional up Fifth Avenue to Central Park and back with a companion. A few people nodded to him. He smiled out of his turned-up collar. On Fifth Avenue someone leaned over a bus rail, shouted: "Howdy, Hoover! How're you doing...
Strolling with his Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey for the first time in four years without secret service agents, Citizen Herbert Hoover found much to interest him. A taxi driver offered them a free ride anywhere. "You know," said Secretary Richey, "we had not had a chance to go out and see the town. . . . Many of the old mansions that he knew have gone. We looked at the Rockefeller Center Development...
Friday evening Citizen Hoover had a moment of alarm when he was told of the California earthquake. He telephoned Pasadena, learned that his wife and Herbert Jr. were safe...
...Hoover visitors: Ogden Livingston Mills, Patrick Jay Hurley, Walter Folger Brown, George Barr Baker, Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Edgar Rickard (Hoover financial adviser), unnamed offerers of business connections, many a charitable organization seeking backing...