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Franklin Roosevelt donned his blue-black Navy cape and his famed campaign hat-the gear in which he campaigned successfully into Terms I, II & III. Out of the White House garage came the huge black Packard touring car with the bulletproof windows. To the Secret Service went the order to mobilize all resources. Franklin Roosevelt had decided to campaign in the usual partisan sense...
...British Embassy dashed the U.S.-made car with bulletproof windows that the Soviet Government had placed at Winston Churchill's disposal during his Moscow visit. Other U.S.-made limousines brought 38 other guests. They were bound to Spiridonovka House for a four-hour, 14-course lunch with Stalin. Stalin wore his simplest Marshal's uniform-no decorations. Churchill wore his uniform as honorary colonel of a Sussex regiment-four banks of decorations. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman, British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr were in mufti...
...years and eight months. He is a confessed onetime friend of the once influential Willie Bioff, the racketeer now in jail who tried to dominate the industry. He has married and divorced four young, handsome wives. He owns a $6,500 custom-built pale blue Cadillac, allegedly bulletproof, which formerly belonged to Tony Canero, the gamblingship proprietor. As the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals once expressed it, Wilkerson's "life has been a successful though precarious...
...bulletproof limousine, with seven armed guards, whipped up to Manhattan's Federal jail and collected Murderer Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter. After 14 months of haggling with the U.S. Government over his custody (TIME, Jan. 10), the State of New York had its hands on Lepke at last...
...protect himself against assault, he acquired a bodyguard, wore a bulletproof vest and an automatic. He got out just in time. He is somewhat touchy about the Pacific war, thinks that the U.S. is doing far too little in that theater, and has said...