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...think is to blame. His name is Andrew W. Mellon. . . . I want to call the President's attention to the fact he has a responsibility over the head of Mr. Mellon and it is therefore up to him to remove Mr. Mellon and . . . to get a Smedley Butlerf or somebody like him who means to enforce...
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...
Last week a piece of paper awaiting his signature brought President Hoover memories. The paper was an order promoting Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. Marine Corps, to the rank of Major-General. The President's memories were of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when he, then a young mining engineer, had discussed the defense of Tientsin with Smedley Darlington Butler, then an enthusiastic Second Lieutenant of Marines just turned 19. President Hoover signed the order...
Promoted. Brig. General Smedley Darlington Butler, 48, of the U. S. Marine Corps; to Major-General...