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...Standard Oil Company of New York has the largest interests in China of any petroleum firm whatsoever. President Calvin Coolidge has despatched U. S. Marines "to protect U. S. interests in China" (TIME, March 7, 1927). The commander-in-chief of these Marines is Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, famed "fighting hell-devil Marine." Last week General Butler personally directed U. S. Marines who fought for more than 24 hours and finally extinguished a fire which threatened the $25,000,000 petroleum stores of the Standard Oil Company of New York, at Tientsin (near Peking...
...your article on China where you have referred to Smedley Darlington Butler as "Old Gimlet Eye" and "Fighting Hell-Devil Marine," "premier 'Fighting Devil' among 'Devil Dogs,' " etc., don't you think all these nicknames are absurd? I do not believe General Butler is such a terrible...
...Gimlet Eye" Butler is the "Hell Devil" you claim him to be, he might have made all the Huns in front of Verdun evacuate by simply snarling at them. No disrespect to Gen. Smedley, who is no doubt a very clever man, but I am sure he would laugh if he read your article on China (June...
...President Coolidge sent Smedley Darlington Butler to this key post of high responsibility? General Butler is a name which called up very recently no more than his comic tribulations as "Dry Tsar" of Philadelphia (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). When the President would not extend his leave to go on with that job, General Butler resigned from the Marine Corps, only to lose immediately his post as "Dry Tsar." Nothing but the complacency of the Navy Department enabled General Butler to withdraw his resignation and scuttle back into the Corps. Yet now it is General Butler who commands...
...familiar with the career of General Butler-the career of a fighter who takes trouble by the whiskers. This General Butler literally did when, with only 180 Marines, he was besieged some years ago in a little Nicaraguan town, by a native general with over 2,000 troops. Smedley D. Butler, then a major, went out to parley with the besieging Commander, walked menacingly up to him, seized his long mustachios, poked a pistol into his midriff, and then twisted the Nicaraguan's whiskers until he howled out orders to raise the siege and let Major Butler...