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...Athens, meanwhile, a Royalist deputy introduced a bill to pay 1,000,000 drachmas ($9,500) to any Greek who assassinates the exiled "Father of the Greek Republic," famed Eleutherios Venizelos. In Paris the bodyguard of M. Venizelos was instantly doubled. Summoning reporters, M. Venizelos dipped frequently into a Greek-English and English-Greek dictionary to find epithets vehement enough to denounce Georgios and the Royalists...
...Last fortnight Exile Angel Morales, Dominican Minister to the U. S. under ex-President Horacio Vasquez (1924-30), hired a bodyguard of two, after an assassin entered his apartment, found his secretary shaving, mistook his lathered face for Morales' and killed...
...Chicago, Helen Fortney, 20, trim, muscular, 138-lb. girl from Lake Geneva, Wis., advertised for a job as bodyguard, claiming that she is a better pistol and rifle shot, wrestler and boxer than most men. She got several score offers of marriage, two for waitress jobs, two interviews with detective agencies and one offer of a bodyguard job which she called ''a little suspicious...
...moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long's arrival distracted everyone's attention. Then Huey Long drove up with twelve policemen as his bodyguard and stopped to buy a bag of peanuts at the gate. The band struck up "Every Man a King," and Huey, entering with a Bible and a copy of Liberty Magazine under one arm. joined in the chorus. By that time there were 8,000 Iowa farmers in the audience...
...With a bodyguard of two plainclothesmen and one state policeman. Italian Ambassador Auguste Rosso made a quiet half-hour visit yesterday to Harvard, accompanied by Ermanne Armao, Consul General of Boston and Judge Felix Forte. This escort was provided with an eye to yesterday's stabbing threat in Boston...