Word: richey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private car tacked on the end of the Atlantic Coast Line's Havana Special, and, with Mrs. Hoover, departed for Florida. His guests: Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Dr. Vernon Kellogg, Mark Sullivan. Secretary George Akerson was left behind to temporize with White House callers while Secretary Lawrence Richey accompanied "The Chief...
...Christmas Eve the President and Mrs. Hoover were giving a party to the children of his Secretariat. Dessert was just being served when Secretary Lawrence Richey whispered something in the President's ear. Quickly the President arose, put an overcoat on over his dinner jacket, hurried out of doors to see flame-shot clouds of smoke billowing from his office building, 200 ft. from the White House proper...
Fire apparatus clanged into the White House grounds. Into the burning building dashed Secretaries Akerson and Richey and the President's son, Allan, to salvage the President's papers. President Hoover rubbed his hands, stroked his hair nervously, called to the firefighters: "Save my files!" He saw the drawers of his desk lugged out safely. It was very cold. Water froze on the hose lines, smeared the furnace-like structure with tentacles of ice. Without rubbers, the President's feet got wet and cold. At the height of the conflagration he remembered his little guests...