Word: gennerich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Thomas Joseph Qualters, 33, onetime Notre Dame football player, onetime Massachusetts State policeman, successor since last December to the late Gus Gennerich as bodyguard to President Roosevelt; to Arlene Eade, of Lynn, Mass.; in Lynn. Two days after the ceremony, they were separated, Mrs. Qualters settling down to furnish an apartment in Washington while Bodyguard Qualters went west with the President...
Presently he went on to discuss minimum wages and hours of Labor. He recited from memory the text of a note which he had sent the late Gus Gennerich to get from a weeping girl who stood beside the line of march on his triumphant tour of New England before election: "Dear Mr. President...
That evening President Roosevelt-squired for the first time by his new bodyguard, Thomas Quakers, successor to Gus Gennerich-attended the semi-annual Gridiron Club dinner and show. There he and Alf Landon sat at the head table, both made satirical off-the-record speeches and newshawks to their surprise agreed that Alf Landon, in wit and composure, came off by no means second best as after-dinner speaker...
...morning last week in the East Room of the White House a small mountain of flowers was banked between the huge portraits of George and Martha Washington. Before the flowers the ornate South American coffin of Gus Gennerich lay in state. Over it a Lutheran minister read the second funeral service for the Presidential bodyguard who dropped dead in Buenos Aires. Among the 300 listeners seated on gilt chairs were George and Augustus Gutrie, bereaved brother-in-law and nephew, Cabinet members and their ladies, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, Mrs. Roosevelt, the President himself, sunburned, leaner, refreshed from 28 days...
...Rumor had already fixed several appointments: Pharmacist's Mate George Fox, long attached to the White House, to succeed the late Gus Gennerich as masseur, companion of the swimming pool and personal handler; Son and Marine Corps Lieutenant-Colonel James Roosevelt to become an unpaid, untitled aide at the White House, taking over some of the functions of the late Louis McHenry Howe; Eugene S. Leggett, acting chairman of the nebulous National Emergency Council, to succeed Stephen Early as press secretary...