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...assist him, Magician Boehme chose hulking Augustus Adolph ("Gus") Gennerich. onetime New York City detective who is now the President's bodyguard. "There are certain newspapers you need not read tomorrow," joked the President, "for I can tell you what they are going to say. They are going to say that Dr. Boehme is going to be appointed Secretary of the Treasury and Gus Gennerich head of the Federal Reserve Board...
...Judge Grover M. Moscowitz continued the case. At a Louisiana fair, when Huey Pierce Long, introduced as "the greatest statesman in the U. S.," denounced the Recovery program, one Sammy Klotz of Napoleonville yelled: "What about that Long Island affair?" [TIME, Sept. n]. Surrounded by state police and his bodyguard. Senator Long yelled back: "Come down here and I'll Long Island you. I won't have five or six men jump on you the way they did on me and then run off. I'll man-to-man it with you." On her 78th birthday, Elizabeth...
...money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances with this desperado. The courtroom bristled with armed men. Every spectator, every lawyer was searched before entering. Even the judge had a bodyguard. It was Harvey J. Bailey who had engineered the Memorial Day break from the Kansas State Penitentiary. It was allegedly Harvey J. Bailey who poured a volley of machine gun bullets into four peace officers and their prisoner in front of Kansas City's Union Station last June...
...Harvard announced that Poet-Scholar Laurence Binyon, deputy keeper of the British Museum, would succeed Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in the famed Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. One of the 1,000-odd freshmen registering at Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must be among the fittest, for they shall survive." And he quoted Harvard's late Dean Nathaniel Southgate Shaler who used to warn Theodore Roosevelt: "It is a good plan...
...Wells says things will get worse before they get better. In 1935 and 1937 will come world-wide influenza epidemics. By 1942. gas masks, metal hats and epaulets will be weekday wear for civilians. By 1940 kidnapping will be so prevalent that no important person will be without a bodyguard. In 1938-39, the Japanese, having set up another puppet state in China, will be driven out of the interior; the brief Eastern War will ensue, from which both Japan and the U. S. will emerge national wrecks, and revolution will break out in both countries. Positively the last Great...