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...Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., arrived to command the U. S. marine forces at Shanghai, last week, just as the original orgy of looting quieted (see above). General Butler limped slightly, and correspondents cabled that he seemed in low spirits after his long sea voyage. He said: "There will be nothing but marine good sense in whatever we do in China...
...China sailed last week from San Diego, Calif., a Quaker who has helped to put down 22 revolutions in his day, and later fought to make of Philadelphia a "dry" metropolis. This respected paladin from Pennsylvania is of course Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. Last week the War Department ordered General Butler to hasten to Shanghai and there take command of the 3,000 U. S. marines who may soon be fighting a modern Boxer Campaign...
...loss of such stars as Charles Darlington, No. 6, Kent Leavitt, No. 7, and Captain Robert Winthrop, stroke, has hurt considerably, but to replace them there are some outstanding men from last spring's undefeated first year crew, judged by experts to be the best freshman boat in the country. From this boat the men who should make the best bid for a seat in the first shell are C. McK. Norton, captain and stroke; Guy Murchie, No. 7, brother of Donald Murchie who rowed in Boat A in some of the two-mile races last year; James Lawrence...
...Darlington, S. C., a Negro died, and was laid out, for the admiration of his friends, with a powdered countenance, among banked flowers. Seven little pickaninnies, graded like a flight of steps, from Nathan Ellison, a toddler of 18 months, to the big seven-year-old girl from next door, stood in a line on the pavement to watch the black box carried out of the house, and stared round-eyed until the last carriage had turned the corner. Then, the next-to-largest black boy gave a tremendous leap from the curb into the gutter...
...President gravely shook the gnarled hand of Henry B. Hallowell, venerable marine. He had presented 'letters from President Harding and Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler of the Marine Corps attesting that he is the oldest living "devil...