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That slender, long-nosed spitfire, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet-Eye") Butler, had made another speech. In Philadelphia he had told a club meeting this story: A friend of his recently roared through the Italian countryside with Mussolini at the wheel of the motorcar. A little girl ran across the road, was smacked to the ground, the life crushed out of her. When General Butler's friend protested at their not stopping, Mussolini said: "What is one life in the affairs of a State...
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...
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...
...names "Old Gimlet Eye'' and "Hell Devil Darling" are Marine Corps synonyms for Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler. So admirable has been his policing of Tientsin, during the Chinese Civil War (TIME, June 25 et ante), that last week he received a supreme honor from grateful China, an honor which a Chinese town or city can confer only with the unanimous consent of every citizen...
Pompously 200 Civic Elders led a gorgeous procession to the G. H. Q. of "Old Gimlet Eye." Each elder had written his name on a tag, had attached the tag to the rim of a magnificent red satin umbrella, from which banners also streamed. This was the supreme gift: THE UMBRELLA OF TEN THOUSAND BLESSINGS WITH BANNERS...