Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaigner is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. His great campaign (1924-25) as Director of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety was cut short when politicians decided that his drying-up tactics were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched another campaign when he discovered one of his non-commissioned officers tending bar for a Quantico village bootlegger. He prohibited his enlisted men from going to the village. Frantic merchants, losing lucrative soldier trade, appealed to the General. He retorted dourly that he would parade his men back to town...
...town council. Theirs was a quandary with only one exit. Without bootleggers, life in Quantico would be dull. But without Marines there would be no life at all. Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to neighboring towns to borrow warrants. After a short, intense campaign he reported to General Butler that the last "big" bootlegger had left town. Merchants dusted off their stock, waited anxiously for the sound of the band leading the Marines back to Quantico...
...Register of Wills, a City Treasurer, a Coroner-great was the to-do because the primary was the acknowledged battle for political supremacy between Boss William Scott Vare (three years elect, but not yet seated as a U. S. Senator) and Mayor Harry A. Mackay, once Vare's campaign manager, last week his rival. On the eve of the primary Miss Beatrice Vare coming from the Senator's sickbed broadcast over the city...
...York City, Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. La Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80,000 compared to 714.000 votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried...
Lieutenant Berry enlisted in the U. S. Marines in 1914 and served through the Haitian campaign of 1915-16. He served a Midshipman's cruise on the U. S. S. Wisconsin during the World War, and was graduated from Annapolis...