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...ended. Promoter Jacobs arrived in New York from Cuba, where he had gone intending to complete arrangements for a Havana fight between Negro Joe Louis and Spaniard Isidore Gastanaga. Instead of completing arrangements for the fight, Promoter Jacobs took a hurried glance at what he later described as "a bodyguard of six machine-gunners" sent to meet his plane, promptly decided that conditions in Cuba were too unsettled for major prizefight ventures, postponed Louis v. Gastanaga indefinitely, returned to New York. The Cuban Tourist Commission termed his statements "outrageous," threatened to bring them to the attention...
...little touring car bearing a 1935 Georgia license plate whose sole symbol was "R." Behind it came more Secret Servants in a big Pierce-Arrow bearing a District of Columbia license and another plate, emblazoned "USSS." From the door of the Little White House, President Roosevelt emerged. His bodyguard helped tuck him into the driver's seat of the Plymouth and off he tootled with the big car following, down Oak Road to Georgia Hall, main building of the Foundation, to circle around it to Atlanta Highway and the patients' pool...
...side. . . . "Correspondents have little hope that the postponed journey to Dessye with Emperor Haile Selassie will be more colorful than a highly interesting Cook's tour, with no possibility of seeing action, since the correspondents, whom Premier Benito Mussolini does not want harmed, presumably will be an effective bodyguard against bomb attacks on the Emperor's party...
...been the customary brawling and cursing as the "Kingfish" strutted up & down the aisle giving orders to his henchmen. As the Legislature adjourned for the night, Senator Long marched out of the chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always, by his bodyguards. A young man in a white suit, lurking in a corner, stepped out into the Senator's path, shoved a small revolver against his right side, pulled the trigger. There was a muffled explosion. One of the Long bodyguards grappled with the assassin. He fired again, searing the bodyguard...
...Suffolk Downs race track special police, who had been heard to say at Revere's City Hall that he had been "tossed around enough," that when he saw the Mayor he would "tear him apart." Next day the convalescent Mayor lay abed in the hospital with a special bodyguard of Revere police on duty day & night in the next room. To call went the Secretary of the Mayors' Club of Massachusetts, who learned that Mayor O'Brien had been assaulted several times before. Horrified at the peril to which Mayors are exposed, the Secretary wrote each & every...