Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05

see sharply, hear quickly, walk warily,
report accurately and-aboye all-be
| faithful to a friendship.
That last requirement would have in
Dictated Larry Richey as a quick choice
and as second to none, in anybody's ac-
quaintance. Mr.. Requa said: Larry
Eichey" Mr.. Hoover sent for him.
The two men, total strangers to each
other, talked together, in that first in
tervieW. for not more than Is minutes
| There has not been a minute since then,
now for II years that has not seen each
in the total and unreServed trust of
| the other
Mr.. Richey became assistant ONCE
manager to Mr. Hoover in the food ad-
ministration. He spent much of his
| time upon investigate tons of the trade
practices which the food administration
was empowered and enjoined by law to
control He investigated and analysed.
for instance, the operations Of the Chi
cago Board of Trade in its buying and
| selling of grains.
! His experience had fitted him to con-
duct Investigations and to arrive at con-
illusions and judgments in almost any
field and among almost any sort Of
people. In 1909 he had joined the
staff of Everybody's Magazine when
that periodical was at the height of its
| VerVe and vogue as an organ of inquiry
and revelation. For several years he in
| qired and revealed in cooperative COM
| pany with those masters of The Liter
allure of Exposure'-Mr. Harvey O'Hig-
gins, Mr.. C. P. Connolly, Senator Can
non of Utah and Judge Lindsey of Col
Orado.
Made Survey of Prisons.
Subsequently, on behalf of another
publication, he made a survey of pris-
ons and other public institutions from
the standpoint of the spread of the use
of habit-forming drugs.
He maintained for some years a gen.
eral investigation agency of his own.
He varied investigating for a short
time by going out into the Far West
and managing gold mine.
People were always asking Larry
, Richey to manage their gold mines, to
manage their magazine efforts, to man
, age their insurance endeavors, to man.
, age anything else they had. can
| speak as an eyewitness of it and a par
! ticipant in it. Once. being on the staff
| OF Chicago newspaper. was assigned
by the editor in chief to an enterprise
| highly perilous, even in Chicago. What
was my first thought? My first thought
was to phone Larry and entice him into
walking right in front of me.
Larry had million friends ranging
Tin the most intimate inward part of
| the vast circle) from Lew Dockstader,
, the eminent minstrel, to Carl Akeley,
the eminent explorer, and almost all of
them seemed to think that they were
engaged in something, from the man
agement of minstrelsy to the manage
ment of explorations, that Larry ought
to take hand in. Most men who have
a million friends earn from the friends
the title of good fellow" and the OPP
portunity to be left reveling. Larry
was good fellow" who was always
wanted as business associate.
Mistake Of Meeting Hoover.
When MFR. Richey made. the mistake
of meeting Mr.. Hoover he was on his
way to being a business man on his
own account on large scale. Since
then he has been wholly unable to listen
to the private business opportunities
! which used to take him so rapidly from
enc employment to another and which
still necessarily. though unavailingly,
| call to him. Mr.. Hoover has an excep-
| tional gift of exciting loyalty Larry
has an exceptional gift of exhibiting it.
He adopted Mr.. Hoover, his senior by
IL years, as a chief" who deserved all
the loyalty that was in him, and I,
knowing Larry's exactingneSs, was
thereby first impressed with the notion
that Mr.. Hoover, besides having COM
pelling efficiency, perhaps had compel
ling character.
Character was Larry's main study.
His scuteness in detecting the evil in
men had helped to make him one of
the country's great Investigators His
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