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...much respected but disillusioned Sir, what do you think we come for? Do you think we sit and wait for two hours before the game, and then usher for the sheer pleasure of serving You Diminutive Highness? Of course we come to see the game! Only that inducement could make us submit to the degradations of personal dignity which we undergo at the hands of your embryo top-sergeants! Ernest Fasano...
...replace the late "Ike" Hoover as Chief Usher of the White House, President Roosevelt appointed a lanky 36-year-old Bostonian named Raymond Muir. Chief Usher Muir was assistant to "Ike'' Hoover for four years...
...widows of Presidents Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Calvin Coolidge and to onetime President Herbert Hoover. The messages all carried the same news: the good friend and trusted aide of each & every one of them, Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, was dead in Washington at the age of 62. He had left his cubby-hole office just off the White House foyer one afternoon, gone home, been suddenly stricken with a heart attack. Declared President Roosevelt who had known him since the days...
...Edison Co. of New Jersey sent young Ike Hoover to Washington to wire the White House for electric lights. It was a six-month job. President Harrison, skittish about electricity, asked Ike Hoover to remain, take charge of the "incandescents," the bells and pushbuttons. President McKinley made him chief usher. As major-domo of the White House he ran its social functions, stage-managed the ceremonious presentation of diplomatic credentials, arranged seating lists for dinners, kept a check on calling cards, directed Presidential receptions, herded the Cabinet about, told distinguished visitors, where to stand, what to say. As guardian...
...Reisman, Eleanor Packard, William Ray, G. Louise, Robert H. Walker, Arky deRosset, H. G. White, A. P. Felton, Catherine E. Jodoin, J. McClellan Laughin, Marguerite Walsh, Kenneth G. Cloby, D. Armstrong, Barbara Cobb, Barbara Cox, Robert' A. Sard, Henry P. Walker, Jr., John Mitchell, Jane Hawkes, Augusta Flagg, Fonchen Usher, William W. Lord, Jane Gilman, Helena Niescherg, Winston J. Rowe, William Dennis, Miss H. Randal, Erik Lundberg, Franklin C. Forbes, L. A. Vigneras, G. Fuler, Willys Spencer, Peggy Moss Priscilla Wedger, Edwin Parkin, Donald Collins, Allice Parker. P. M. Mason, Wil-G. Chase, Henrietta Young...