Word: gennerich
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...cutaway ("the old suit I go to funerals in"), the President accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, her sister-in-law Mrs. Gracie Hall Roosevelt, and Bodyguardsman Gus Gennerich wearing a new spotted necktie, celebrated Easter by attending services at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church...
...occasion. The sixth, Thomas D. McAvoy, had a tiny camera containing film specially sensitized in an ammonia bath. The President, ignoring the cameramen, continued with his work. He glanced at letters and orders. He squiggled his signature, doing his duty and eager to get it done (above) while Gus Gennerich stood ready with a blotter. Secretary Marvin Mclntyre hovered helpfully in the background. The Presidential package of Camels lay open on the desk. All this time, Thomas McAvoy was snapping...
...When Gus Gennerich wheeled him up the ramp from the colonnade into the new office building. President Roosevelt was beaming with happy expectation. So were the 120 members of the "gang," as Louis Howe calls the White House office force. They were delighted to have a wholly air-conditioned building to save them from the summer's heat; delighted with the roomy basement offices extending out under the lawn and surrounding a little sunken court with a fountain in its centre; delighted that in place of the beautiful but useless McKim dome over the old waiting room, their palace...
Before going to his own office, the President wanted to see the rest of the building, and Gus Gennerich rolled him around the main floor?through Louis Howe's office with its pale pistachio green walls (about which the President's No. 1 secretary grumbled softly); through the office of Secretary Howe's Secretary Margaret Durand (whose nickname is "Rabbit"); across the vestibule where Captain Clarence L. Dalrymple and Lieutenant Larry Seamen of the White House uniformed police force stand guard to pass legitimate visitors, turn back cranks. The President peeked into the new room set aside for White House...
...cheeked Richard Jervis, chief of the detail which has been guarding the lives of Presidents since the McKinley assassination (1901), and his able assistant. Colonel Edward Starling, were more than a little worried by all the entrances provided to the President's office. But he was not worried. Gus Gennerich lifted him into his desk chair and he began his winter's work: conferences with Secretary Hull, Secretary Bern, Vice President Garner, Secretary Wallace, Chester H. Gray of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Next day when 200 newshawks turned up for the first regular press conference, the President was ready...