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History. Patently the integrity of Philadelphia's police has been impaired since the regime of Brigadier-General Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety from 1923 to 1925. General Butler, taking time out from a rip-snorting career in the U. S. Marine Corps, so disciplined his men and so terrorized the gangsters that before he left he had made himself unpopular also with the pleasure-loving Better Element. His farewell to the city included the charge that the then Mayor, W. Freeland Kendrick, was unwilling to disturb rich prohibition violators or alleged violators...
...Tientsin, the port nearest to Peking, were U. S. Brigadier General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. forces of 3,950, and Allied troops bringing the total up to some 8,600, all subject in case of a general emergency to General Arai of Japan...
...your article on China where you have referred to Smedley Darlington Butler as "Old Gimlet Eye" and "Fighting Hell-Devil Marine," "premier 'Fighting Devil' among 'Devil Dogs,' " etc., don't you think all these nicknames are absurd? I do not believe General Butler is such a terrible...
...Gimlet Eye" Butler is the "Hell Devil" you claim him to be, he might have made all the Huns in front of Verdun evacuate by simply snarling at them. No disrespect to Gen. Smedley, who is no doubt a very clever man, but I am sure he would laugh if he read your article on China (June...
...that the U. S. Legation and all U. S. citizens be removed to the port of Tientsin from inland Peking, should that city be seriously menaced. To keep the way of escape open, to carry out the evacuation if necessary: these were the tasks faced last week by "Old Gimlet Eye Butler...