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Last week Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. retired, announced that a petition was being circulated to put his name in the April primaries in Pennsylvania as a candidate for the Republican Senatorial Nomination. His candidacy again drew the sharp line which separates the Out-&-Out-Dry-Pinchot Republican machine from the Wet Philadelphia organization commanded by Boss William Scott Vare. General Butler's chief opponent for the nomination (which is virtually as good as an election) will be Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who recently switched from Dry to Wet to hold the support...
...duties of Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety roughly correspond to those of New York City's Police Commissioner, except that he also administers the departments of fire, building, elevator and electrical inspection, maintenance & repairs. Most famed of Philadelphia's recent Safety Directors was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, who tried to dry up the city. In 1928 aggressive, door-smashing Lemuel B. Schofield was appointed following a grand jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped...
Engaged, Ethel Peters Butler, daughter of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. U. S. M. C., retired; and Lieut. John Wehle, U. S. M. C. Engaged. Trevor Charles Stamp, M. D., second son of Sir Josiah Stamp, economist and director of the Bank of England; and Frances D. Bosworth, cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes. Married. Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, cinema baritone, onetime member of the Metropolitan Opera Company; and Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard of Burlingame, Calif.; in Manhattan. It was his second marriage, her third. Married, Joan Hamilton, stepdaughter of Cosmo Hamilton, author, playwright; and Roger de la Vasselais of Manhattan...
...Johnson City, possibly of pneumonia; Sophie former Queen of Greece, sister of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Frankfurt-am-Main, following an operation; James Lewis Kraft, chairman of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., in Chicago, following an operation; former President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru, in Lima, of pneumonia; Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, in Sarasota, Fla., of exhaustion after 43 speaking engagements in 48 days; General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing, 71, in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, of a severe cold...
Thus spoke President Hoover last week, leaving no doubt that he would promptly approve the request of Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler for retirement from the Marine Corps Oct. 1. General Butler will live in Philadelphia, is said to be planning to run for the Senate...