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...Newton had fallen from her horse into the Rapidan. The only story that Secretary Joslin branded as untrue was one to the effect that a Hoover wolfhound bit a Marine guard and the President, patting the animal's head, remarked: "Nice doggie! Now go bite General [Smedley Darlington] Butler...
...every one is now well aware, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U.S.M.C., has two congressional medals. Last month he defended his right to the second one by loudly protesting aspersions cast by the Haitian Minister to the U. S. (TIME, May 4). Last week, the State Department hav-ing accepted the Haitian Minister's equivocal apology, General Butler took time by the forelock and refreshed the country's memory of how he won his first medal. His immediate audience was a group of grocers assembled in the same Philadelphia Elks' Club where General Butler...
Ever since the Navy Department reprimanded him for calling Prime Minister Mussolini a hit-&-run driver (TiME, Feb. 9, et seq.), Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. M. C., has been on the alert for international slights. Last week he thought he had found one. He thought he had caught Dantes Bellegarde, the Haitian Minister in Washington, saying that the Haitian fort for capturing which he (Butler) won the Congressional Medal of Honor, was a fictitious fort. Wrathfully General Butler appealed to the Navy Department to have this ugly blot wiped from his record...
Also working for Philadelphia's unemployed last week was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., once the city's prime Prohibition enforcer. He told a group of businessmen to "put away their yachts and declare war on hard luck." The hero of many a widely publicized feat in war and peace, General Butler has requested a leave of absence from the Marine Corps to make speeches, the proceeds of which he turns over to the idle. Said he: "I am willing to clown or circus or do anything for which they will pay me. even...
...South Bend, Ind., Major General Smedley Darlington Butler U. S. M. C., just back in the Government's good graces after having branded Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy a hit-&-run driver (TIME, Feb. 9 et seq.), told the Knife & Fork Club; "When public opinion is aroused, Al Capone will go back to Italy-but I can't talk about Italy. God help anyone who gets in the way of public opinion, for I know." He then proceeded to explain how "any police force can clean any city in 24 hours if the Mayor and City Government want...