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President Roosevelt will do nothing regarding the “party in interest for a hearing” until he is able to speak with Attorney General Knox. It was George B. Cortelyou who wrote Roosevelt on behalf of Terence Vincent Powderly.
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1903-08-29
President Roosevelt does not believe that S. Davies Warfield, postmaster at Baltimore, Maryland, should be removed. Warfield should have brought the case to the attention of Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith, but he was acting under the orders of his superiors.
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1903-08-19
President Roosevelt informs Postmaster General Payne that the investigation into the Post Office Department has taken an unexpected turn with the resignation of George W. Beavers before evidence was even presented. August W. Machen is favored by the Civil Service Commission and many Congressmen, and Roosevelt has been annoyed at the newspaper efforts to show that Assistant Postmaster General Robert John Wynne is disloyal to Payne.
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1903-03-31
President Roosevelt found the letters sent to George B. Cortelyou interesting and is pleased that the Hague court is to be officially recognized.
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1903-02-18
President Roosevelt has high regard for Governor Merriam but believes that George B. Cortelyou is the right man to take charge of the newly created Department of Commerce and Labor.
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1903-02-12
George B. Cortelyou has requested Major Schmitz to visit Thursday morning and President Roosevelt forgot to discuss the “numbers of the armies of Darius” with Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Roosevelt believes that the German critics go to “foolish extreme” when countering the Greek and Roman accounts.
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1902-11-06
President Roosevelt’s injured leg is still bothering him but he is looking forward to the bear hunt. Roosevelt is also interested in visiting Tuskegee, but only if it does not interfere with the bear hunt. He asks Fish to keep the intended hunt a secret, because if the press learns of it, he might have to cancel his plans.
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1902-10-21
John L. McGrew informs Benjamin F. Montgomery of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s recent departure from Oyster Bay, New York. He asks that Montgomery see that White House Steward Henry Pinckney meet her at the station when she arrives, and that George B. Cortelyou be notified that she is coming.
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1902-09-24
President Roosevelt asks when Margaret Chanler must have a definite answer, as his schedule is still being developed, and he very much wants to attend the christening.
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1902-07-21
President Roosevelt will discuss Charles M. Heald’s suggestions about the train with George B. Cortelyou and jokes that his opponents accuse him of giving offices “chiefly to Yale men and Rough Riders.”
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1902-07-26
President Roosevelt will be unable to accompany Hanna to a statue unveiling in Cleveland, as he has prior commitments in Iowa and Illinois.
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1902-07-18
President Roosevelt thanks Bishop Vincent for the kind letter.
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1902-03-19
Vice President Roosevelt appreciates Jacob H. Schiff’s cable. He assumed that Schiff sent another to President McKinley and has informed George B. Cortelyou.
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1901-09-10
Ralph M. Easley tells William Loeb about a recent talk he had with Archbishop John Ireland, and is confident he said what the Star reported him saying. Easley discusses the impressions various groups have regarding the potential nomination Secretary of War William H. Taft or Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou as the Republican presidential candidate. He warns that organized labor seems to be set against Taft, as is “organized capital,” and is worried that there is not anyone who will be able to beat William Jennings Bryan.
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1907
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1911-10-30
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, 1847-1928
Mary P. H. Kieran acknowledges that Theodore Roosevelt is very busy and it may have slipped his mind, but cites various references to show that Roosevelt consented to be on the advisory committee of the Sanatorium Gabriels while he was the governor of New York. Referring to his request to no longer be involved, she lets him know the institution’s fall magazine has already been published, but he can have his name omitted from future publications.
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1911-10-15
Charles A. Conant is producing a book about the progress of New York which will include steel plate illustrations of various financial leaders. He asks Theodore Roosevelt which photograph would be best adapted and where he can obtain it.
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1911-08-23
Mark Sullivan sends Theodore Roosevelt an article clipped from the Wall Street Journal related to an exhibit of objectionable advertisements in the New York World about which he wrote to Roosevelt previously. While the previous advertisements were medical in nature, the new article relates to financial advertisements, and Sullivan feels that the newspaper is overall very vulnerable to criticism. Sullivan recalls that some of the World‘s animosity toward Roosevelt may have come from the effort of his administration to put “the very worst class of medical fakers” out of business, which hurt the newspaper’s advertising revenue.
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1911-02-14
John E. Wilkie reports on the recent debates in the House Committee on Appropriations surrounding the Secret Service’s payment and involvement in land fraud cases. Wilkie outlines and refutes the claims made by some committee members, including Representatives John A. Tawney, Joseph S. Sherley, and William I. Smith. He concludes with the observation that the committee members “alone were responsible” for the state of Congress and that “no executive officer” is to blame.
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1909-01-08
Assistant Attorney General Cooley recommends Harry Skinner, current Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, to President-Elect Taft for the appointment as District Judge. Cooley cites Skinner’s handling of Internal Revenue Service cases as evidence of his qualification and notes that he was an “outspoken Taft man” despite popular support for Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou. Cooley hopes he has not troubled Taft with the letter, as he has already communicated its contents to President Roosevelt.
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1909-01-11