Word: richey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election for village president, State Senator Richey Graham, son-in-law of Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago, saw an opportunity to break the Republicans' 16-year grip on Cicero. Mayor Cermak sent 230 policemen from Chicago to Cicero on election day to see that the voting took place without irregularities. Fifty Republican partisans were arrested the night before the balloting. Also arrested was Editor Lewis Cowen of the Cicero Tribune. He promptly sued the Chicago chief of detectives...
...gave Peggy Ann and Herbert III a White House party for 250 children who were instructed to bring presents. These gifts were rebundled and shipped to destitute miners' families at Morgantown. W. Va. whom the Quakers are helping to relieve. As usual on Christmas morning Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey came down the State dining room chimney disguised as Santa Claus and as usual the President got clown on the floor to play with his grandchildren's mechanical toys...
...jobless), that by Jan. 1 he hoped 100,000 would be thus engaged (1 6/10 % of all jobless). ¶ In California has circulated a report that President Hoover is a heavy stockholder in South American oil companies, therefore favors a low petroleum tariff. Last week Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey wrote to a member of the National Republican Club: "The President has not one dime of investment of any kind outside the borders of the U. S., whether in oil or otherwise...
...Lawrence Richey, President Hoover's detective-secretary, flew to Panama, caught two 10-ft. sailfish in two days...
Panama Bay. Then he went to U. S. Minister Roy Tasco Davis, had a diplomatic passport made out for himself & fish, with pictures of all three. The passport requested that "all skeptics into whose hands these presents shall come give full credence to the tales Senor Richey may tell. . . ." Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils of the Denver Post went to visit on a ranch west of Fort Collins, Col. With his host and another friend he wandered along the Cache Poudre River. Publisher Bonfils saw a pool of rainbow trout. "Try 'em if you like," said his host, "but they...