Word: smedley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GIMLET EYE: ADVENTURES OF SMEDLEY D. BUTLER-as told to Lowell Thomas-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75). Now that Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler has retired, the U. S. Marine Corps is not so often in the news. Few soldiers have been more tanned by the limelight. A fighter who enjoys his reputation, General Butler started scrapping early in life and has continued to fight it out on that line, letting the news stories fall where they may. With the help of Ghost-Writer Lowell Thomas he has laid all his scraps end to end, called it a life. Born a Pennsylvania...
...conspicuous exploit. First thing after taking office she promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler demanded redress. Mrs. Patterson cleverly got her competing papers to publish a denial, without humiliating herself. She wangled an interview with Al Capone by walking unannounced into his Miami Beach home. She slept in a Salvation Army lodging house and wrote about...
With his back in a cast because of injuries received from falling off a ladder in a well. Major General Smedley Darling" ton Butler left his bed to address a veterans' rally at Norristown, Pa. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, who said he had not milked a cow for 20 years, lost a milking contest in Shenandoah, Iowa to Earl May, operator of radio station KFNF, owned by Henry ("Himself") Field, Republican nominee for Senator. The loser's plea: "The trick is to get a lot of foam in the milk so the pop bottle will fill...
...Battle of Washington. Major L. J. H. Herwig, U. S. A., retired, of Washington, offered them his 400-acre Virginia farm. On these plots Commander Waters proposed to establish "Khaki Shirts" colonies, warned: "If they try to burn us out again, damn 'em we'll kill 'em." Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, retired, flirted with the idea of consolidating the "Khaki Shirts...
Into every crack & corner of Pennsylvania went Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. (retired), campaigning for the Republican senatorial nomination. A Dry, he was endorsed by Governor Gifford Pinchot. He made 126 speeches (preceded, he said, by 126 silent prayers). But neither speeches nor prayers availed him. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, a Wet supported by Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine, last week won renomination by a 350,000-vote majority...