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...President Hoover takes joy in slipping away from his newsgathering shadows. Last week he succeeded in motoring without them to Catoctin Furnace, Md., to fish peacefully in Hunting Creek with Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey. All that the newsgatherers learned was that the President caught a pound-and-a-half trout, inspected a site for a ten-room log cabin, ate a picnic supper under the trees with Mrs. Hoover. After dusk he drove back to Washington. His shadows politely rebuked...
Citizen Calvin Coolidge, in spite of himself, was back in the news last week. The New York Evening Post advertised and republished his article on national defense. The National Geographic Society elected him a director. And he went trout-fishing in Connecticut without a license...
...last was not as bad as it sounds. He caught 16 trout, weighing about 15 Ibs., but he caught them in the privately-stocked preserve of onetime (1911-29) Senator George Payne McLean near Simsbury. Fishing without a license on a private preserve breaks no Connecticut law. And, anyway, the Connecticut Legislature, so soon as it heard what was going on, passed a special act empowering Governor Trumbull to issue special complimentary licenses to his prospective son-in-law's father or any other distinguished guest who may drop into the State. With Citizen Coolidge in the news appeared...
Mooching quietly about in those backwoods sections, he might have been a detective looking for moonshiners. But his quarry was far more elusive than that. He was looking for, and asking for, and prepared to pay for, the right to catch−brook trout...
April was at hand and the trout-hunter's mission was much more important than might have been suspected. Because he was Lawrence Richey, erstwhile of the U. S. Secret Service, lately raised to the estate of $10,000-per-year secretary to the President of the U.S. And he was looking for places where President Hoover might enjoy "the rejoicing and gladness" of not having "to decide a blanked thing until next week," as he (Herbert Hoover) once...