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...tool of the interests," provided Editor Banks with an armed bodyguard and a small army of minute men in the foothills, subject to his call at the signal of open revolution. Banks led a riotous march on the Court House, made a speech from the steps, would have thrown out the county officials bodily if the American Legion had not intervened. Oregon newspapers began referring to the "Mad Dog of Medford," and to the county as "The State of Paranoia." In February 1933 Editor Robert Waldo Ruhl of the Mail Tribune rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks...
...boss the President. He recalls that Woodrow Wilson bridled a bit at first at the precautions taken for him by the Secret Service. But the only Secret Service charge completely to defy the organization to date is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. She stead fastly refuses a bodyguard, although her son James's family has one to protect her grandchild...
President Sacasa had completely lost face by his failure to catch Sandino's murderers. A grave, honest gentleman, graduate of Columbia University, he was made for peace. Last week Nicaraguans rumored that he was "actually the prisoner of General Somoza," that his personal bodyguard took orders from Somoza...
...chilly morning last week President Roosevelt got off a special Atlantic Coast Line train at Jacksonville. Behind him was the work and worry of Washington; ahead of him, fun with friends off Florida. For a stag party he had brought along only Gus Gennerich, his bodyguard, three secret service men and his Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. At the station were his son James and Jacksonville's Mayor Alsop. Buttoning his overcoat against the breeze the President got into an automobile with Florida's plump Governor Sholtz and drove five miles to the docks on the St. Johns River. There...
Economics where they found the Herr Reichsminister Kurt Schmitt in the correct costume for a Nazi economist : the black tunic and tight leather belt of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard. "The main purpose of this reconstruction." said Minister Schmitt, "is to coordinate business and the State. Private business will remain, but it will be put in the service of the people and the State. . . . Honest competition must be but it is to be controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation." With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry...