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...Theodore Roosevelt Sr. pensioned 60-year-old Negro Charlie Lee. Son of General Robert E. Lee's slave body servant, Charlie Lee was engaged by President Roosevelt in 1902, served him until his death as personal bodyguard, has since been Mrs. Roosevelt's chauffeur. In Lee's home on Sagamore Hill hangs the most famed of Roosevelt's African hunting trophies, the original Big Stick...
Slugged and beaten with blackjacks, brass knuckles, gun-butts and baseball bats were a housewife, a Kansas City Star newshawk, a candidate for the City Council, a chauffeur, a policeman, and five other persons...
Four men climbed into a big limousine one morning in Palo Alto. The plump man was Herbert Hoover. The others were two secretaries and a chauffeur. Heading eastward across the U. S. the limousine took Mr. Hoover to: 1) Chandler, Ariz. "on business"; 2) Phoenix, Ariz. to spend the night with Arch W. Shaw, Charles G. Dawes, General Pershing, General Harbord and Henry M. Robinson; 3) Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman...
...Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley the Observer remarks that "as a statesman, he is an excellent chauffeur," but gives him full marks as a politician. "Next to Roosevelt, he has the best glands in Washington." But the coming man of national Democratic politics, says the Observer, is little-known Edward J. Flynn, boss of The Bronx. "Mystery man of Roosevelt's Black Chamber" is Frank C. Walker, until lately treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. "Together with Farley and Flynn, he is a tacit reminder that Roosevelt's strongest single element of strength is the Catholic Church. . . ." Observer...
...Rothschild, she can appear as his devoted wife. George Arliss's monocle, originally an affectation but now a necessity, has worn deep grooves around his right eye. He has never been known to break one. He gets exercise by walking, followed slowly by his car and chauffeur so that when tired after four miles outbound he can ride home. The clock on his dressing table is 250 years old. He used it in Alexander Hamilton. Most of the characters whom Arliss has portrayed with the greatest success have been infidels. He is a practicing Episcopalian, head of the Episcopal...