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...time for mailing to the Pacific coast. Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents. But because President Hoover was slow finishing his, the public prints last week rioted in guesswork. Asked whether it would be long or short, Private Secretary Joslin gravely declared: "All I can say at this time is that the message will not be a long one-and also that it will not be a short one." For weeks President Hoover has been carrying around a little 5? pad of paper in his pocket, jotting down random message ideas...
...over did he learn of the sudden death of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (see below), though thousands of radio listeners heard Graham McNamee interrupt his play by play description of the game to flash the news. Leaving Shibe Park, a bulletin was handed to President Hoover. Secretary Theodore Joslin spoke for him: "The President is greatly shocked. . . . He will enlarge on that statement when he returns to Washington." ¶ Prior to leaving for his Rapidan camp last weekend, President Hoover breakfasted with Bernard Mannes Baruch, wisest of Democrats, famed director of the War Finance Corp., breakfasted and talked so long...
...sits at a big desk in the outer Executive offices. His title is White House mail clerk. All day long he opens letters from sacks and sacks of mail, scans them through gold-rimmed glasses. If your letter looks very important, he routes it to Private Secretary Theodore Joslin who may put it before the President. If it looks political, it goes to Political Secretary Walter Newton. If it looks personal, it is sent to Detective Secretary Lawrence Richey. If it is none of these, it finds its way to the office of Executive Clerk Rudolph Forster who replies with...
Next day Secretary Joslin tried to smooth things out by informing the Press: "This is not censorship. Any newspaper man has a perfect right to ask any employe at the White House any question he wishes. But just try to get any information...
...ordered a carpenter pounding nearby to "declare a moratorium on noise''; 3) a hideout had been constructed near the White House laundries where Secretary Walter Newton could hold secret political interviews; 4) Mrs. Newton had fallen from her horse into the Rapidan. The only story that Secretary Joslin branded as untrue was one to the effect that a Hoover wolfhound bit a Marine guard and the President, patting the animal's head, remarked: "Nice doggie! Now go bite General [Smedley Darlington] Butler...