Word: joslinized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago petitioning for the "constitutional rights" of the oncoming hunger marchers (see p. 10). Included in the delegation were Mrs. Corliss Lament, daughter-in-law of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, New York's Mrs. William Osgood Field Jr., Chicago's colorful Mrs. Polly Chase Boyden. Secretary Joslin met them, told them they could not see the President. "Who made that decision?" asked Mrs. Field. "I did," replied Secretary Joslin. "Is this the usual procedure for receiving petitions?" "Each case is judged on its merits-and I am the judge of the merits," explained Secretary Joslin. Boiled...
...Steve" Early, large, handsome, curly-headed descendant of Confederate General Jubal Early, is expected to be the front office man at the desk now held by Secretary Theodore Joslin. He covered the Navy Department for the Associated Press when Mr. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary, trailed him on his 1920 vice-presidential campaign. An easy, likable gladhander, he served Paramount Publix as Washington contact man. His job will be to steer as many callers as possible away from the President...
...Florida last spring. Acquaintances later reported seeing him hurrying around Chicago. Commented Lemuel Parton, oldtime newsman: "Col. Robins, no longer like Mirabeau, has changed a lot. Halsted and West Madison Streets haven't changed at all." ¶After a two weeks' vacation Hoover Secretary Theodore ("Ted") Joslin returned to his White House job. His substitute Edward Tracy ("Ted") Clark, old-time Coolidge secretary, faded out of the picture, returned to Drug, Inc. ¶Informed by Secretary Mills that treasury funds are now available, President Hoover ordered the expenditure of $186,224,000 in public works-a provision...
...wiry figure walked into the White House last week, hung his hat up on a peg to which it was accustomed and went quietly to work in the office next to President Hoover's. It was Edward T. ("Ted") Clark, longtime confidential secretary to Calvin Coolidge. Unannounced, Theodore ("Ted") Joslin, the President's No. 1 secretary, had departed overnight for an indefinite vacation and Ted Clark had been called in to substitute. President Hoover could hardly have gotten a better man to help him through the ardors of the campaign...
Early Sunday morning Theodore Joslin, Hoover secretary, got a telephone call in Washington ordering him immediately to the camp. A White House car sped him to the Rapidan where the President handed him another statement for the Press. He raced back to the Capital, started up the well-oiled White House mimeographs, summoned newsmen...