Word: quantico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
...Quantico's Mayor and stationmaster, A. E. Mclnteer, summoned the 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...
...HARVARD QUANTICO MARINES Nugent, 2b. s.s., Levey McGrath, s.s. r.f., Young Donaghy, 3b. c.f., Gordon Ticknor, 1.f. 1.f., Freeman Gilligan, r.f. c., Derr Prior, 1b. 3b., Werner Bassett, c.f. 2b., Munari Batchelder, c. 1b., Almand Whitmore, p. p., Smith...
...Marine nine from Quantico will storm the Harvard baseball fort on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The conflict is scheduled to start at 3 o'clock, but some of the festivities before the game may delay the zero hour until about 3.20 o'clock...