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Obeying sharp military orders, a score of the raiders ranged through the corridors of the big building. Soon five other rope-bound, writhing watchmen?the whole force on duty at the Depot?were jammed into the brig with the gate guard. To them came muffled clanks and booms from above. The commanding Naval officer on duty, yanked from his bed, remembered that in the big safe on the top floor was $84,500 pay for the 300 Depot employes. For five hours robbers held the Navy's great supply base out of U. S. control...
Appointed. Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt III of Manhattan; to command the 77th Division, U. S. A. Reserve, of which the celebrated "Lost Battalion" was a unit...
Judge William Squire Kenyon, appeared in Washington Brig. -Gen. Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, famed marine, recent drier-up Quantico, Va. (but not of Philadelphia, where his strongarm methods were disapproved). For two hours he told them what he thought of Prohibition: "The grossest piece of class legislation in the country's history . . . like using 16-in. guns to kill sparrows...
...animated by something more than natural animal spirits." Moreover, the agents saw liquor, bought liquor, drank liquor. One of the agents was subsequently approached by the manager of the Wardman Park Hotel (affiliated with the Carlton Club), who protested that high Dry officials were his good friends, including Brig.-Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition...
...knee, shoved his cap over to an effectively hard-boiled angle, and went on: "I understand that there is some difference of opinion among civilians concerning the right and wrong of prohibition. Some of it got into camp, but those on the negative side are in the brig. It's a closed question to the military, so as long as you wear those uniforms, don't get opinionated...