Word: richey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shrewd at business as well as politics, Secretary Hurley, onetime mule boy in an Indian Territory mine, has been successfully leasing Shoreham office space to his G. 0. P. cronies. Last week he caught the best of all possible Republican tenants when President Hoover, in the name of Lawrence Richey, his detective-secretary, took a four-room suite to serve as a political watchtower overlooking the Democratic scene. Sooner or later wise Washingtonians expected to see this lettering on the door: HERBERT HOOVER, CONSULTING ENGINEER...
...Davis. C. Last week President Hoover went holidaying over Christmas and New Year's. Sunshine and blue skies met him when he detrained at Savannah. His guests: Supreme Court Justice Stone, Vermont's Senator Austin, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan and the ubiquitous Dr. Boone and Detective-Secretary Richey. Aboard the Sequoia, Department of Commerce inspection boat, and surrounded by a small flotilla carrying newshawks and bodyguards, the President's party wound through tidewater streams to emerge in Ossabaw Sound. Gus Ohman, a guide who had taken President Cleveland fishing in these Georgia waters, told President Hoover...
Colonel Howe, Roosevelt intimate and campaign strategist, will be the back office man to whom wise favor-seekers will turn. Occupying a confidential position approximating that of President Hoover's Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey, he will make his home in the White House with the Roosevelts...
...Roosevelt because, ill in New York, he had failed, like Henry Ford and Mr. & Mrs. Norman Thomas, to register. ¶ After John Marrinan. onetime private secretary to Herbert Hoover at the Department of Commerce, had declared for Roosevelt, he got a telephone call at his Washington home from Lawrence Richey, the President's detective-secretary. Marrinan's story: "Richey told me he would punch my nose and break me in two for the Roosevelt statement. He called me every name under the sun. . . . I'm an oldtime ball player but in all my experience I never heard...
...President had not stayed long with his guests to watch the returns. As in 1928 he had withdrawn himself in triumph, now he withdrew in defeat to his study with his old friend and secretary, Ray Lyman Wilbur, his sons and secretary Richey. Just before 9 o'clock Richey said: "We have conceded nothing yet." Mrs. Hoover was preparing a buffet supper when Jack McDowell, Stanford's alumni secretary, came out and read the message of defeat. After a moment of silence, every one applauded, meaning to acclaim the loser's gallantry. Floodlights on the roof lighted...