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...found dead in China. There were no papers on him by which he could be identified but on his body was tattooed the name and number of his lodge in New York City. The Chinese Masons not only sent the body to New York City, but also sent a bodyguard of two Chinese Masons all the way to New York City with it. That is Fraternalism in its purest form. EDWARD M. TAGGART East Orange...
...President's bodyguard under Richard Jervis have long idle hours on their hands. So have their good friends the White House newsmen. Together newshawks and detectives sit about in the White House lobby gossiping. Thus is many a little human interest story about the President brought to light. Most correspondents also have their special White House pipelines for news. It was to break up this system that President Hoover, his nerves frayed from his arduous debt negotiations, called in William H. Moran, chief of the Secret Service, and asked to know who was the White House "leak...
...telephone. But no car came. Camp cooks continued to prepare Sunday dinner. The President's temper began to rise. He repeated his command, louder this time: "Get my car AT ONCE!" A few minutes later the White House motor rolled up before him. Behind it came the presidential bodyguard, buttoning their shirts and tying their cravats as they scrambled into their escort car. A brief nod of farewell to his camp guests and President Hoover, without dinner, started down the mountain toward the capital 112 mi. away. Thirty miles along the road a car from his camp careened...
...that he could not reach his own car and had to be driven away in a commandeered machine. Springfield was the most cordial to the President but even there there was no "whooping-it-up-for-Hoover," no lusty demonstrations, no hat-tossing. Careful planning by the Hoover bodyguard averted all unfriendly exhibitions throughout the trip. At Springfield 350 "hunger marchers" who planned to demonstrate before the President were kept off-stage under virtual arrest by the local police. Republicans comforted themselves with the thought that, as Alfred Emanuel Smith discovered in 1928, noisy receptions do not always mean...
...Canton Government last week a Brigadier General. Brigadier General Cohen says he was born in London, says it with the accent and gestures of a New York East Sider. From 1921 until the death of great Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1925, "Sure Shot" Cohen was the personal bodyguard of the Father of the Chinese Republic...