Word: richey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tampa, Golfer Gene Sarazen filed two $40,000 damage suits in an effort to collect for three years' services as professional at the Jasmin Point Golf Club, New-Port Richey...
...Clark, President Hoover now has working for him and re-election the following: Everett Sanders, President Coolidge's No. 1 secretary, as chairman of the Republican National Committee; George Akerson, onetime Hoover secretary, as publicity director at New York headquarters; Walter Newton, onetime Minnesota Representative, as political secretary; Lawrence Richey, one-time detective, as personal secretary.; French Strother, onetime editor, as literary secretary...
Next day his corps of agents?Secretaries Mills, Stimson, Hyde, Postmaster General Brown, Detective Secretary Richey and Political Secretary Newton? began returning from Chicago to tell him how well his wishes had been executed, receive his thanks. "A prompt and effective job," said the President. When the Vice President arrived at the White House, the President led him out to the posing ground for the first pictures of the renewed Hoover-Curtis ticket...
...Hoover's office was turned into a pre-convention headquarters. One member of the Cabinet after another trooped through to ask him if he had any last-minute instructions, to shake his hand in farewell before starting for Chicago. Lawrence Richey and Walter Newton, White House secretaries, were packed off to Chicago as Mr. Hoover's personal agents. There they took an obscure room at the Congress Hotel which became the real Hoover headquarters, with a telephone line stretching directly to the President's ear. When the convention started, Candidate Hoover was left alone in Washington, with...
What the convention would do about Prohibition even the President did not know. Secretary Richey reported that Chicago was filled with wild talk about a repeal declaration. The Indiana State convention startlingly declared for resubmission of the 18th Amendment. As a candidate for re-election Mr. Hoover had told pre-convention callers that he was ready to run on a platform declaring for resubmission of the question to the people but that he was opposed to Repeal. Senators had submitted sample planks for Resubmission but on none had Mr. Hoover placed his finger and said: "I want this and nothing...