Word: bodyguardsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound newsreel equipment lumbered up into position. Idlers paused, gaped, made throngs. When Vice President Curtis left the Cabinet Meeting, a bodyguard hopped into his car beside him.* All was in martial readiness about the White House to meet a reported Red demonstration for Unemployment relief. Police, newshawks, cameramen, bodyguardsmen, idlers, the President himself waited tensely for the picketers to arrive and be repulsed. One hour passed, then another. But not a Red showed up. The police began drifting away. The White House quieted its jumpy nerves. It was a false alarm...
With the Marine Band dinning in his ears, Citizen Hunefeld took note of the bodyguardsmen (secret service) standing about. They could not be too careful guarding the President's life. Some crank might get in. McKinley had been shot that way by a man with a revolver under a handkerchief. President Harding had been asked to wear a bullet-proof vest at his first reception in 1922 but refused. An experienced receptionist, Citizen Hunefeld knew he could not put his hands in his pockets; he had seen women warned to take their hands out from under their furs...
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