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Obviously the plot failed. Jules Archer, journalist-historian, supplies some fascinating details that make the episode considerably more than a paranoid fantasy. In 1933 emissaries purporting to represent an organization called the American Liberty League approached a retired Marine general named Smedley Darlington Butler. The League was devoted to laissez-faire capitalism and backed by such people as the Du Ponts and J.P. Morgan. The general was offered an extravagant budget - $3,000,000 for starters, with a possible $300 million if necessary - to mobilize an army of 500,000 veterans and lead them to Washington, there to force Roosevelt...
...smaller pirate stations located in a renovated wartime lookout in the Thames Estuary. The marauders surprised the seven sleeping disk jockeys and technicians, who surrendered without a struggle and allowed them to cut the station off the air. Leaving nine men to hold the fort, their leader, Major Oliver Smedley, 54, a bemedaled World War II paratrooper, former Liberal Party vice president and director of twelve companies, sailed back to shore...
...reason for the raid was simple. He had "loaned" Radio City's transmitter to its owner, Reginald Calvert, 37, a sometime hairdresser, clarinetist, popcorn manufacturer and promoter, and Calvert was planning to sell the whole station to a syndicate. Smedley had no way of suing, since Radio City was located twelve miles out in international waters for the express purpose of avoiding British jurisdiction. Smedley figured, as he later told police, that "possession is ten-tenths...
...following night, Calvert drove up for a chat with Smedley at Smedley's 17th century, thatched country cottage 40 miles north of London. At 2:40 a.m., Smedley summoned police. There lay Calvert, dead of a 12-gauge-shotgun blast in the chest. Police arrested Smed ley, who, though admitting the raid, pleaded innocent to the murder...
Harvard's battle with Princeton capped the weekend. Third-slot singles player Gaines Gwathmey, a freshman, trounced his Tiger opponent, 6-1, 6-2. In second place, Bob Balley, also a freshman, easily outchased Walter Smedley of Princeton...