Word: bodyguarding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor of Tokyo, Viscount Goto, selected Shojo Usui, veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who holds the fourth rank of the Kodo-kan School of Jiu-Jitsu, to be his bodyguard. The Mayor chose a jiu-jitsu exponent because he believes that this famous art of self-defense is the most effective. Mayor Goto has recently received threatening letters because of his connection with the visit of A. A. Joffe, representative of the Russian Soviet...
...expected all at once. The Mexican army, once given official recognition to distinguish it from the rest of the armed citizenry of the republic, and the war office budget have both been reduced materially in the last two years. Railroad trains no longer carry the bodyguard of regiments...