January 23, 1931
I HAVE been shocked and grieved to learn of the death of your father. His energetic and valuable service to his community, his State and his Country will be greatly missed. He was my good friend. Please accept the deep sympathy of Mrs. Hoover and myself.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mr. Lawrence Dickey, Journal-Post, Kansas City, Missouri]
Note: Mr. Dickey, owner of the W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Co., and the Kansas City Journal-Post, died on January 22, 1931, at his home in Kansas City, Mo.
Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Walter S. Dickey. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207784