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...Smedley Darlington Butler Jr., son of the famed, gimlet-eyed Brig.-Gen- eral of Marines, was arrested for motoring 65 m. p. h. through Salem, N. J., fined $10 by Justice of the Peace Elizabeth Smith...
...famed author (examples: James Joyce, Lord Dunsany) was given his first U. S. audience. Others who were early recognized, if not actually discovered by Mencken & Nathan's Smart Set: Ruth Suckow, Sherwood Anderson. Ben Hecht, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Barry Benefield. Christopher Darlington Morley...
...will just say that I HEAR lusty-lunged Marines singing the strains of "Sweet Adeline" in Quantico, Va., Baltimore, Washington, D. C., San Diego, California, Tientsin, China, and many other places, and down in front of the stands, wearing a pleased smile, is the one and only Smedley Darlington Butler, Major General, U. S. Marine Corps. You will find that the General has many more friends than enemies...
...from 1893 to 1907 was such a system ever attempted on a large scale. It was Mr. Roper who, as a State legislator, sponsored the bill creating it. To the Judiciary Committee Mr. Roper recited the history of that liquor experiment in his State, described the "whiskey rebellion" at Darlington, the bootlegging, graft and corruption which finally led to the law's repeal as a failure and South Carolina's movement toward State Prohibition. Under questioning, he admitted that local conditions then were "not dissimilar" to national conditions now. His remedy: "I would get a group...
...knew that he was saying exactly what the White House wanted him to say on an. issue President Hoover thinks has been unduly exaggerated. Bewailing the Hoover policy of "putting outsiders" in charge of local government, Washington citizens recalled the spectacular efforts of another military man, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., to use "military methods" in policing Philadelphia and his 100% failure...