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...newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator was his personal bodyguard, swart Joe Messina...
...Venizelos, who was unscathed, to lift from the floor of the car the limp body of his rich wife. Blood oozed from her clothing. After a hasty examination doctors found that four bullets had grazed her lungs and stomach but that she would live. Dead lay a Venizelos bodyguard...
Back in Manhattan, Mr. Roosevelt's bodyguard was at wartime strength and alertness as he settled down to conferences on his Cabinet and policies. An important caller: Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, back from London with his Government's latest views on War Debts. An important development: Senator Carter Glass finally refused the Treasury portfolio, which thereupon went, it appeared, to William Hartman Woodin, musical president of American Car & Foundry...
Nansen Certificate in his pocket, the straggle-chinned little Russian wrapped himself in a thick overcoat, hurried with his wife and bodyguard to Istanbul where they boarded the steamer Praga bound for Marseilles. Objective of the Trotsky trip is Copenhagen, where Mrs. Trotsky is to undergo medical treatment and Comrade Trotsky, still leader of anti-Stalin Communists, is to deliver a lecture at the University. On shipboard Mr. Lubinsky seemed pleased but nervous. For two hours before the ship sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens...
...skyrocketed to be general auditor of the road. Hulking young Morosini with his flamboyant manner, his bullet head, his colossal mustaches (alia Vittorio Emmamiele} and his stiletto was the kind of man Gould, the unscrupulous railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale-on-Hudson known as "Elmhurst." This he crammed from cellar to garret with costly knicknacks. There were gold plated bathtubs, tables of green malachite, huge bronze...