Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long one of the Treasury's best sleuths, favored by President Roosevelt as a bodyguard at Oyster Bay, Detective-Secretary Richey entered Herbert Hoover's service in Food Administration days. Bodyguarding long since ceased to be his sole function. He furnishes the Chief with a pair of extra ears as well as with vigilant eyes and brawn. When the President-Elect went to South America, Lawrence Richey was left behind to Hear Things...
...commission the U.S.S. Mayflower to save $300,000 annual maintenance and to send nine officers and 148 men back to regular naval duty. Scotch built in 1896, she was purchased by the U.S. from the estate of Ogden Goelet for $480,000 for Spanish War service. President Roosevelt first used her as an official yacht, as did all his successors. President Hoover is no yachtsman...
Fields. Speculative is stock in airplane companies; somewhat less speculative is stock in flying fields, since though companies may come and go, the flying field remains always necessary. So last week reasoned many an air-minded U.S. investor, offered stock in Roosevelt Field, Inc., at $18 a share. The new corporation plans to purchase in fee Roosevelt Field, L.I. (from which Col. Lindbergh made his Paris flight) and adjacent Curtiss Field, to supply hangars for planes and parking space and a restaurant for the general public...
...Porcellian roster includes Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nicholas Longworth, Poet James Russell Lowell, Richard Henry (Two Years Before the Mast) Dana, Novelist Owen Wister, John Jay Chapman. The club's favorite brew is a mixture of beer...
...four Senior offices in the organization, namely, president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. The men who have been placed on the blanket list of nominations are as follows: W. C. Bidlack '30, C. G. Chase '30, W. McK. Dunn '30, E. D. Emigh '30, W. M. Randol '30, James Roosevelt '30, Donald Scott '30, and C. M. Underhill...