Word: strothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edgar French Strother, 49, intermittently literary coach of onetime President Hoover and associate editor of the late World's Work (merged last year with Review of Reviews), Democrat; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...York Times French Strother, literary secretary at the White House, wrote a four-page eulogy of President Hoover and his administration which left the impression that the U. S. electorate had made a grave error when it rejected such a successful leader for a second term. A Strother news item : President Hoover planned to call a White House conference on ''The Use of Leisure Time" but never publicly announced it for fear a country suffering from an excess of involuntary leisure might misunderstand and mock...
Colonel McIntyre (in the Kentucky Guard) will be the new side-office man corresponding to Political Secretary Walter Newton and Research Secretary French Strother. An oldtime Washington Times man, he handled the Navy's Press relations during the War, caught the eye of the Assistant Secretary whom he helped campaign in 1920. A year ago he left Pathé Newsreel to go to Albany as the Governor's personal Press representative and later as general factotum and business manager of his campaign. Few White House visitors will see his cadaverous face...
Late Lights. White House lights burned far into the night before the departure as French Strother. literary secretary, and Walter Ewing Hope. Manhattan lawyer,onetime (1929-31) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, helped President Hoover put finishing touches on his Cleveland address. Next day at 7 a. m. the President was breakfasting aboard his Baltimore & Ohio special as it slid out of the Washington yards. At Martinsburg, W. Va. began a series of rear platform appearances that were to continue throughout the 13-hour journey. At Cumberland, Md. where are tariff-protected celanese mills. President Hoover reminded a station crowd...
...last week went back a century to borrow an oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people to pay off the Bonus...