Roosevelt signing TVA Act May 18, 1933 TVA Bill signed by FDR,
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February 19, 1933, New York Times, Quaker City Moves For Police Reform; Philadelphia Demands That an 'Intolerable' Situation Be Corrected, by Lawrence Davies, Editorial Correspondence,
Mayor Moore Unmoved; Triple Slaying Brings Threat of Grand Jury Inquiry From Judge; Authority is in Question; City Does Not Know Whether Mayor or Safety Director Is in Charge of Department,
It was soon afterward that General Smedley D. Butler was imported by Mayor Kendrick to "clean up" the city. During that first term the late James T. Cortelyou, ...
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February 25, 1933, The New York Sun, page 4, Dodge Removed as Police Head; Mayor Moore Accepts His Aid's Challenge,
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March 12, 1933, New York Times, Pinchot Fate Seen as Hinging on Davis; If Senator Is Cleared Here, the Governor, It Is Held, Would Be in Awkward Position; by Lawrence Davies, Editorial Correspondence,
Trial Begins Tomorrow; Davis Was Bitterly Attacked by Pinchot in Lottery Case Last Summer; Election in Question; Governor Is Believed to Plan to Run for Senate in 1934 if Way Is Opened,
A few months before that letter was written . Senator Davis had overwhelmed the Pinchot candidate* Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in the primary contest for the ...
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March 19, 1933, New York Times, Filipinos Oppose Haste on Freedom; Feeling Is Growing That the Terms Offered Are Breach of the American Trust, by Robert Aura Smith, Special Correspondence,
Perils Are Now Realized; Ethnical Barriers Among the Many Islands Are Problems Remaining to Be Solved; Grip on Trade Is Weak; Much of Control Is in Hands of Foreigners, Particularly the Large Chinese Element,
...of the Far East to the blunt assertion of Smedley D. Butler that the Philippines - would be a Japanese province within two years after they became independent.
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May 30, 1933, New York Times, Book Notes,
"Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures and Reminiscences of Smedley D. Butler, will be published in August by Farrar Rinehart. General Butler was in the city ...
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May 31, 1933, New York Times, Gen. Butler Wants 'Tories' Unhorsed; He Tells Veterans at Passaic, Roosevelt Will Swing Axe on 'Discredited Financial Set-Up;' Sees Nation Imperiled; Calls on 'Massed and Threatening Public Opinion' to Save It by Supporting True Leaders,
Smedley D. Butler. The retired Marine Corps officer addressed a Memorial Day audience of 1400 persons in Memorial School under the auspices of the Passaic ...
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June 16, 1933, New York Times, Schuman-Heink, 72, Extols Cooking; Girls Should Learn More of It and Less of Politics, Singer Says on Birthday; Would Revive Chaperon; She Praises Roosevelt as 'Messiah' -- Hopes Her Native Austria Will Never Join With Nazis,
Smedley Butler and give him half a regiment of marines and send them into the cities in plain clothes; let them make a good house-cleaning in this country.
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June 18, 1933, New York Times, Books and Authors
General Smedley D. Butler, who has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor twice and who has been in hot water oftener than that, is the subject of a ...
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August 25, 1933, New York Times, Gen. Butler Still in Militant Mood; Former Marine Officer, in Book, 'Old Gimlet Eye,' Says There's Plenty of Fight Left, No Longer is Sensitive; 'Don't Even Turn Around to See Who's Kicking,' He Writes of His 33 Years in Uniform,
Apparently with his sword still buckled on and a smoking revolver in his hand, Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, dictated the record of his adventures ...
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August 27, 1933, New York Times Book Review, The Extraordinary Career of Smedley D. Butler; Old Gimlet Eye;
Fortunate is the man who can look back, as his years grow many, over a life so full of activities, The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler. As told to Lowell Thomas. Illustrated by Paul Brown. 310 pp. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. $2.75, adventures, thrilling experiences, dangers, achievements,... View free preview,
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September 18, 1933, New York Times, Veterans Hear Butler; General Urges the 29th Division Group to Keep Spirit of Unity,
...spirit of I sticking together which you showed during the World War," General Smedley D. Butler warned them "not to pay attention to people who roll the drums ...
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September 24, 1933, New York Times, Studio Activities in Hollywood,
Warner notes: "Shoot to Kill," the life story of General William Smedley Butler, was bought from William Rankin as a likely vehicle for James Cagney. Margaret ...
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November 16, 1933, New York Times, NRA is Attacked by Foundary; Association Members Declare Program Has Paralyzed Nation's Industry, NEW DEAL A 'DELUSION' It Halted an Upward Trend in Business, Jordan Holds -- Speakers Point to Evils.
Whiting Williams of Cleveland on "Stalin, Mussolini or Roosevelt, Which Has ...and Dr. Gus W. Dyer, an economics professor at Vanderbilt ...
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December 10, 1933, New York Times, Butler for Bonus Out of Wall Street; Advises Ex-Soldiers to 'Shake It by Throat' -- Counsels Long to Let Foes Go to Hell
General Smedley D. Butler of the marines, retired, directed sharp criticisms at the American Legion leadership and called for payment of the soldiers' bonus in a ...
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December 11, 1933, New York Times, Gen. Butler Lays War to Bankers; ' Make Them Pay Through the Nose,' He Says in Attack on Veterans Economy; Urges Pressure at Polls; He Tells Atlanta Ex-Soldiers to Muster Their Votes to Force Care of Disabled,
The government's economy program as it affects veterans was criticized here today by Smedley D. Butler, retired Major General of the marines. Addressing ...
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December 21, 1933, New York Times, Flier's Widow Award Upheld,
Butler a Circus Saint. Major Gen.Smedley D. Butler, formerly commanding: general of the United States Marine Corps, was made a member of the Circus Saints ...
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January 4, 1934, New York Times, Sports of the Times; Neck Risking for Fun.
Mussolini has decreed that foreigners will not be allowed to race Italian cars any ...It was once so in America, but since the end of the Vanderbilt Cup race it has ...
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March 15, 1934, The New York Sun, page 1, Nazi's Attack Closes Warsaw University, [Marcel Handelsmann attacked]
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April 26, 1934, New York Times, Hull May Ignore Tokyo Statement; Officials Hesitate Lest They Attach Undue Weight to the Declaration on China; Envoys Ask Our Plans; Link Between the Problem and Plan to Start Work on New Naval Vessels Denied,
Smedley D. Butler was in command at Shanghai. The Navy Department officially denied reports that General Bradman had been recalled. It was added that ..
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May 1, 1934, New York Times, Hitler's Reign of Terror (1934) The Brown Shirts, by Mordant Hall, diigo,
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June 1, 1934, New York Times, Madman Gives Up Dynamite; War Veteran in Explosive-Laden Auto Stands Off Alameda Police 24 Hours; Planned to Slay Self; Crowd Watches All Night for Blast as He Sits With a Detonator in His Hand,
Smedley Butler, retired marine corps officer. Bennett took part in a Mexican campaign, she said. Daughter Brought to Car. Throughout the night Bennett sat with ...
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June 12, 1934, The New York Sun, page 15, Hitler Will Fly to Venice; Mussolini Plans to Meet Nazi Chief at Airport There Thursday Morning,
HITLER AID ON WAY party. Mussolini will move to Stra tomorrow night from Roccoa Delle ......the Grand Canal into the Hitler Will Fly to Venice Mussolini Plans to Meet Nazi Chief at Airport There Thursday Morning ......10 A. M. Thursday for his conference with Premier Benito Mussolini, it was learned today. Mussolini will meet Hitler at the airport, where he will be ......waiting for the Chancellor's arrival from Munich. Mussolini and Hitler, attended by their suites, will go to...Escort Hitler to Hotel. After escorting Hitler to his hotel Mussolini will return to Stra by launch and automobile, where ne...
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June 13, 1934, Binghamton Press, page 1,
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July 13, 1934, New York Times, Cut in Veterans' Aid Scored at Syracuse; Representative Studley Tells V.F.W., Congress Betrayed Service Men in Slash,
It was indicated that General Smedley D. Butler would be sought to lead a national appeal for restoration of pension cuts. The administration s policy of ...
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August 18, 1934, Ballston Spa [NY] Daily Journal, Leathernecks Meet in Denver on September 7,
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October 1, 1934, New York Times, Asserts Congress Will Pass Bonus; VFW Head Tells Convention That Members Have Assured Him of Sufficient Votes; 3,100 Posts Plan Drive; Uniform Pension System Is Also Demanded as Session Opens at Louisville
Speakers at the encampment include General Smedley D. Butler and Senator Arthur Robinson of Indiana, in addition to Mr. Patman. Mr. Robinson and Mr.
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October 2, 1934, New York Times, Roosevelt Ask Aid of Veterans; Nation's Welfare Is the First Concern, He Says in Message Read at Louisville Meeting, Patman Demands Bonus; Texas Congressman Is Cheered as He Urge Certificates Be Paid Immediately,
Smedley D. Butler, former Marine Corps commander, told the veterans at a banquet that he would never again "carry a gun off the continental borders of the ...
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October 4, 1934, New York Times, Gen. Butler Talk is Cut Off RADIO; VFW Convention Backs NBC Action, Calling His Words Unfit for 'Mixed Audience'
Major General Smedley D. Butler was cut off the air by the National Broadcasting Company representative here this morning as he was speaking to the ..
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October 4, 1934, UP- The Poughkeepsie Eagle-News, page 1, Butler’s Talk Cut Off Radio; Station Takes Exception to General's Language; V.F.W. Approves,
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October 6, 1934, New York Times, Butler Radio Cut-Off Condemned by VFW; Veterans Reverse Approval of Action -- Re-elect Van Zandt as Commander."
Condemnation of Radio Station WAVE for cutting Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler off the air during his address here Wednesday was expressed in a resolution ..
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October 6, 1934, Ballston Spa [NY] Daily Journal, page 2, Aids Twin in Scandal Suit,
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October 6, 1934, Ballston Spa [NY] Daily Journal, page 2, Morgan Twins Fight Mother for Child Gloria, by Margaret Garrahan,
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October 6, 1934, Ballston Spa [NY] Daily Journal, page 2, Foreign War Veterans Elect Gloversville Man,
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November 3, 1934, New York Times, Dill Ouster Plan Silences Judge; Atlantic City Jurist Refuses Comment on Impeachment Threat by Democrat,
John J. McCloskey, president of the Moore-Dill Veterans' League, said today in Newark that the recent speech made by General Smedley D.Butler, former ...
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November 10, 1934, New York Times, Armistice Fetes Will Start Today; Numerous Observances Here to Be Held During the Three-Day Period, Sweep for Hoffman Seen; Barbour Says Republican Nominee Will Get Record Vote -- Kean Backs 'Worth-While' Relief,
General Butler to Speak. ...Armistice Day service at Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun at which General Smedley D. Butler will speak on the topic, "War Is a Racket
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November 12, 1934, New York Times, Pastors Here See New War Threats; In Armistice Day Sermon Dr. Bowie Assails the Legion as 'Menace' to Country; Gen. Butler 'War Racket' -- Dr. Fosdick Holds Hitler Imperils Peace."
In an appeal to the churches to I help stop the "war racket," General Smedley D. Butler, former commander of the marines, was frequently applauded by the ...
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November 21, 1934, New York Times - Associated Press, Exploited, Says Butler,
...concerning plan to set up a Fascist dictatorship, General Smedley D.Butler said: 'My name has been used all around the country by organizations--a hundred of ...
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November 21, 1934, Ballston Spa [NY] Daily Journal, page 2, Big Men to Be Called to Sift Funston Charges; Bond Salesman Put on the Spot--Gen. Butler Refuses to Talk on His Charges,
Bond Salesman Put On the Spot—Gen. Butler Refuses To Talk on His Charges,
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (INS)- Placed squarely on the hot spot by Gen. Smedley D. Butler's astounding testimony, Gerald P. MacGuire, an embarrassed young bond was to appear before the Dickstein committee today to repeat his denials that he ever urged Butler to march on Washington with a "Fascist" army.
Named by the fiery marine corps veteran as the intermediary in a plot of Wall Street interests to overthrow President Roosevelt with a force of 500,000 ex-service men, MacGuire was to be examined on a number of circumstantial details contained in Butler's charges.
And despite the mirth, sarcasm and explosive indignation with which the charges were denied by various eminent officials mentioned in the "conspiracy," the congressional committee on un-American activities intends to "sift the matter to the bottom."
Congressman Samuel Dickstein, vice chairman ...of the committee, said:
Back Up Charges
"From present indications Butler has the evidence. He's not going to make any serious charges unless he has something to back them up. We'll have men here with bigger names than his."
Dickstein said further that about sixteen persons mentioned by General Butler would be subpoenaed and that a public hearing might be held next Monday.
General Butler's testimony represented the high point of a career marked by such episodes as "turning in" a host who served liquor at a banquet in his honor, accusing Mussolini in the death of a baby, and being shut off on the air in the middle of a speech for dubious language.
Refused to Talk
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa., Nov. 21 (INS)—Major General Smedley D. Butler is prepared to go again before the congressional investigating un-American activities and testify further regarding his charges that he declined an offer to head an army of 500,000 ex-servicemen in a coup to overthrow the government and set up a dictatorship.
The retired marine commander so declared today in telling International News Service:
"It depends entirely on the committee. If I am subpoenaed, I will go back."
Reached at his home here, Gen. Butler adamantly refused to discuss the testimony he gave before the Dickstein committee in executive session in New York yesterday.
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November 21, 1934, New York Times, Gen. Butler Bares 'Fascist Plot' To Seize Government by Force; Says Bond Salesman, as Representative of Wall St. Group; Asked Him to Lead Army of 500,000 in March on Capital -- Those Named Make Angry Denials -- Dickstein Gets Charge,
A plot of Wall Street interests to overthrow President Roosevelt and establish a Fascist dictatorship, backed by a private army of 500,000 ex-soldiers and others, was charged by Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired Marine Corps officer, who appeared yesterday before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, which began hearings on the charges.
Smedley D. Butler, retired Marine Corps officer, who appeared yesterday before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, which ...
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November 21, 1934, UP, The Herald Statesman [Yonkers, NY] page 4, 'Dictator Plot' To Be Probed By House Group; Butler’s Expose of Fascist-Wall Street 'Plans' Draws Chuckle From Others,
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November 21, 1934, Ballston Spa [NY] Daily Journal, page 2, Hitler's Friend,
Surprising thing about close friendship of Leni Riefenstahl (above) and Reichsleader Adolph Hitler is that she makes no effort to conceal fact she is Jewish. Nazi chieftain made her virtual dictator of German films and allied arts. This is her newest photo. (Central Press)
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November, 22 1934, New York Times, Credulity Unlimited,
A Washington correspondent asked: 'What can we believe?' Apparently, anything, to judge by the number of people who lend a credulous ear to the story of General Butler's 500,000 Fascists in buckram marching on Washington to seize the government. Details are lacking to lend verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. No information is given where the men were to come from. Perhaps they were the million men William Jennings Bryan said would spring to arms overnight. Their equipment, their training, are not specified. The whole story sounds like a gigantic hoax. General Butler himself does not appear to more than half credit it. He and some others, however, ask us to follow the famous saying of Tertullian: 'I believe it because it is impossible.' It does not merit serious discussion, but if the army and the navy authorities, or the Congressional committee can develop any 'facts' about, let them do so quickly, so as to prevent this nation from appearing as gullible as were the Germans in the case of the Hauptmann von Kopenick [the innocent person the Nazis blamed for the Reichstag fire] .
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November 22, 1934, New York Times, Inquiry Pressed in 'Fascist Plot'; Purported Agent, on Stand, Again Denies Asking General Butler to Lead 'March'; Public Hearing Possible; Representatives Consider Data 'Important' -- Legion Heads Disavow Any Part,Gerald P. MacGuire, a bond salesman for the Stock Exchange house of Grayson M.-P. Murphy Co., reiterated his denials yesterday of Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler's charges that MacGuire had "approached" him in a purported plot by Wall Street interests to establish a Fascist dictatorship.
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November 22, 1934, New York Times, Letter, Mr. Rogers Is All Ready To Bat for Gen. Butler, by Will Rogers,
To the Editor of The New York Times: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov. 21. -- Smedley Butler don't take that job of marching down Pennsylvania at the head of ...
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November 22, 1934, The New York Sun, page 13, Film Plot Like Butler's Story,
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November 23, 1934, New York Times, Reds Found Active in Fur Industry; Large Sums Are Collected to Foment Strife, Congress Committee Is Told,
The Congressional committee investigating un-American activities gave its attention yesterday to the Communist movement in the fur industry here. It heard six witnesses testify in the Bar Association, 42 West Forty-fourth Street, that large sums were collected by so-called Left-Wing unions to foment and carry on strikes.
...Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Hanford Macnider of Iowa, former national commander of the American Legion, and former General Smedley Butler of the ...
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November 23, 1934, New York Times - AP, page 3, Says Butler Described Offer,
HELENA, Mont., Nov. 22. James E. Van Zandt of Altoona, Pa., National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, "reiterated here tonight that he had been approached by "agents of Wall Street" to lead a Fascist dictatorship in the United States under the guise of a "Veterans Organization." The commander said General Butler informed him of the request to him less than two months ago. Butler told Van Zandt, the commander said, that Van Zandt had been selected to be one of the leaders of the organization, and that he would be approached by envoys at Louisville, Ky., during the V. F. W. convention. The commander said he informed Butler he would "not be in when the envoys called."
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November 23, 1934, AP - New York Times, Clark Is "Bewildered.",
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November 23, 1934, AP - New York Times, Clark Is "Bewildered.",
Robert Sterling Clark, whose name was mentioned in connection with General Smedley Butler's charges of a Fascist dictatorship movement, said tonight he was he was sending a lawyer to New York to clear the matter up. The New York broker said he was completely bewildered by the mention of his name. He said he would send the lawyer "if the whole affair isn't relegated to the funny papers by Sunday." The broker is on vacation in Paris, but said he was ready to return if he is asked to testify.
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November 25, 1934, New York Times, 'Plot' Statement Due.; MacQuire Testimony on Butler's Charges to Be Revealed,
Smedley D. Butler, United States Marine Corps, retired, that he had been asked to head a Fascist march on Washington. According to John W. , chairman of the ...
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November 26, 1934, JTA, Fascist Putsch Fund is Charged to Wall St. Broker in U.S. Probe,
Extensive fund transactions allegedly in connection with a plot of Wall Street interests to foment a Fascist march on Washington to seize control of the United States government, were revealed yesterday in a statement by the Congressional Committee on un-American activities.
The thirteen-page statement issued by Representatives McCormick and Dickstein, chairman and vice-chairman of the committee, disclosed exchange of considerable sums from Robert Sterling Clark, multi-millionaire broker, and Albert G. Christmas, his attorney, to accounts controlled by Gerald P. MacGuire, bond salesman named by General Smedley D. Butler as the man who had offered him leadership of the "army" to be formed.
The statement pointed out that the investigators are awaiting the return to this country of Clark and Christmas. As the evidence stands, it calls for an explanation that the committee has been unable to obtain from Mr. McGuire,” it revealed. It also pointed out that the committee has no evidence “that would in the slightest degree warrant calling before it such men as John W. Davis, General Hugh Johnson, General Harbord, Thomas W. Lamont, Admiral Sims or Hanford MacNider,” all of whom had been named in reports in connection with alleged plot.
The statement did not take up reputed connections between Wall Street and American Nazi circles which were believed to have been under consideration by the Congressional committee nor did it reveal links between Nazi and "shirt"
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November 26, 1934, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, page 2, Judgment of Butler Coup Charge Hinges on Witness Now Abroad,
Final judgment on the so-called Fascist putsch in which Wall Street interests are supposed to have sought Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler to be their "man on horseback" is not to be passed until two important witnesses have returned from abroad and been questioned. This is the gist of an analysis of the testimony so far taken, made public today by the Congressional committee on un-American activities. Representative Samuel Dickstein, vice chairman of the committee, summed up his findings as: "You can't get away from it, somebody is trying to shield somebody on something that looks rotten."
Turns on Broker
The witnesses now absent are Robert Sterling Clark, wealthy Manhattan broker, and his attorney, Albert G. Christmas. The larger part of the statement turns on the testimony of Gerald C. MacGuire, bond salesman, who was intrusted to handle $107,000 for Clark and who, while unable to explain how he had defrayed the money, branded the Butler allegations as inspired by a desire for publicity.
Prepare Subpoenas
As the evidence stands," says the report, "it calls for an explanation that the committee has been unable to obtain from Mr. MacGuire." The committee has prepared subpoenas to be served on Clark and Christmas on their return but, according to its statement, "has had no evidence that in the slightest degree would warrant calling before it such men as John W. Davis, Gen, Hugh Johnson, Gen. James G. Harbord, Thomas W. Lamont, Admiral William S. Sims and Hanford MacNider."
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November 26, 1934, New York Times, Committee Calm Over Butler 'Plot'; Has No Evidence to Warrant Calling Johnson and Others Named, It Declares, But Will Question Clark; MacGuire, Whom He Backed, Is Found to Have Had $1,000 Bills at Time He Met General,
The so-called plot of Wall Street interests to have Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler head a Fascist movement to take over the national government and restore the ...
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November 27, 1934, New York Times, Butler Plot Inquiry Not To Be Dropped; Dickstein Says Committee Will Get to the Bottom of Story -- Awaits Clark's Return,
Smedley D. Butler at the head of a Fascist army here, Representative Samuel Dickstein, vice chairman, said yesterday. The committee s statement of the
He added that the committee was far from satisfied with the story told by Gerald C. MacGuire, bond salesman, whose memory failed to produce any satisfactory account of the funds that he handled for Robert S. Clarke and his attorney, Albert G. Christmas.
Although it was reported that these principals had cabled from abroad that they were willing to return, Mr. Dickstein said they had not. The committee, he said, would like to question both. As soon as their presence can be assured, a special executive session of the committee will be held to hear them. ...
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November 27, 1934, JYA, Dickstein Sees Financial Link, Archived
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...[anti-]Semitic publication, which first appeared last week. Healey, who has been a frequent speaker at meetings of the Friends, [Friends of New Germany] has been a flagrant advocate of violence against what he terms the "Jewish peril."
Several other notorious Nazi agitators will be called to testify next week, Dickstein said last night.
Working on evidence submitted to it by the Jewish Daily Bulletin, the committee also expects to summon before it an active “anti-Communist” who has been distributing the forged “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and other anti-Semitic literature. Indication that this person is being financed by socially and financially important interests will be probed in an effort to establish a new link between Wall Street and an organized campaign to spread prejudice in the United States.
As Dickstein prepared material for further executive hearings of his committee he also was awaiting the decision of Supreme Court Justice Edward J. McGoldrick on an appeal for a State charter by the Friends of New Germany. It appeared likely yesterday that a ruling on this question will be handed down by the middle of this week.
Interest in a purported Fascist plot, revealed last week by Gen. Smedley D. Butler, continued unabated yesterday, when it was learned that the movements of Robert Sterling Clark and his attorney, Albert G. Christmas, both now in Europe, are being watched. The committee already has announced it will ask both men to explain financial transactions between Clark, who according to Butler, was represented as being willing to finance a Fascist coup here, and Gerald B. MacGuire, bond salesman and supposed go-between in the scheme.
Charges that CCC camps were to be used as focal points for dissemination of Fascist propaganda are being investigated by Department of Justice agents, it was also learned yesterday.
Dickstein expressed the opinion that MacGuire "is shielding somebody, I believe; probably a lot of people."
"But we're determined to investigate all the principals in this thing," he said, “and I'm convinced important results will follow."
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November 29, 1934, The Salem Press [NY] page 6, General Butler’s Fantastic Story of Fascist Plot to Seize the Government, by Edward W. Pickard,
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December 1, 1934, New York Times, Witness Boasts He is a 'Hitler'; Youth, Publishing Irish Weekly in Brooklyn, Brags He Will Lead Fight on Jews,
A slim Irish youth from Brooklyn wearing a three-inch metal swastika in his lapel, waving a swastika flag and giving the Nazi salute as he took the oath, appeared before the Congressional Committee on un-American activities at the Bar Association yesterday and proclaimed himself an American Hitler.
The committee disclosed during the day that General Smedley D. Butler, in his tale of the purported i Fascist plot to seize control of the government, had told the Joseph Healey, 21, of Healey’s Irish Weekly,
Friends of New Germany
Khaki Shirts of America
Red Builders
At one point in the examination the young man said:
"I put people in the Communist party."
Mr. Dickstein threatened him with contempt unless he gave the names. He refused to do so.
The committee disclosed during the day that General Smedley D. Butler, in his tale of the purported Fascist plot to seize control of the government, had told the committee that William H. Doyle of Malden, Mass., former State Commander of the American Legion, had suggested to the general that he become a candidate for National Commander of the American Legion. Mr. Doyle, in an Associated Press dispatch from Boston, ridiculed the story and termed the alleged Fascist plot a "joke, absurd."
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December 1, 1934, New York Times - AP, Doyle Makes Denial,
William H. Doyle of Malden denied tonight that he had suggested to General Smedley D. Butler that the latter be a candidate for National Commander of the American Legion. "In fact, he couldn't be a candidate if he wanted to, because he wasn't a delegate." ...
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December 3, 1934, Time Magazine, Plot Without Plotters, [Blog]
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December 17, 1934, New York Times, page 5, Absolved Luther of Nazi Activity; Dr. Vollbehr Told McCormack Committee Ambassador Warned Him to Desist,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. -- Dr. Otto F.H. Vollbehr, whose collection of incunabula and a rare and valuable copy of the Gutenberg Bible were purchased by the Library of Congress a few years ago for $1,500,000, has since spent nearly all of his personal fortune in the circulation in this country of pro-German and anti-Jewish propaganda, according to his testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, it was announced today.
Smedley B. Butler and Gerald , had returned from Europe and would testify either Wednesday or Thursday in a public hearing before the committee.
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December 20, 1934, Ames Daily Tribune, page 7, Fascistic Plot Charge Heard By Committee,
WASHINGTON (UJK) — Charges "some big people" were backing an American fascist movement were made Wednesday by Vice Chairman Samuel Dickstein of the house uazl committee investigating an alleged plot for a "dictator's", march on Washington.
Dicksteln charged that 'dangerous groups hiding behind the cloak of combating communism" actually were seeking a fascist state. Among the backers, he asserted, "are some people who purport to have Mayflower ancestors."
The committee, investigating Un-American activities, turned to the alleged "fascist march" plot after civic and labor officials testified to the extent of communism in the United States. Albert G. Christmas, attorney tor Robert Sterling Clark, broker who figured in testimony concerning an alleged proffer to Gen. Smedley Butler to head a march of 500,000 "fascists" on Washington, was called for questioning Wednesday.
Christmas was asked to bring with him books, papers, bank accounts, checks and correspondence. The committee hopes to develop financial details of an alleged offer of $18,000 in $1,000 bills to Butler to become "dictator." Clark was mentioned in testimony of Butler and Gerald McGuire before the committee several weeks ago. McGuire, a bond salesman, had more than $30,000 with him when he went to the 1933 Chicago convention of the American Legion, the committee counsel said. It was at the convention that Butler allegedly was approached. Despite testimony of witnesses that the Soviet pledge on American recognition to stop propaganda activities in this country has been violated, the committee has failed to substantiate such charges.
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December 23, 1934, New York Times, Letter Disparaging Haiti Is Much Deplored; Misrepresentation in Recent Stories Here Is Condemned, by Harry Roberts Carson,
The present political condition of Louisiana is worse than that of Haiti ever was, even in the days when Smedley Butler gained his Congressional honors.
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December 30, 1934, New York Times, Sees US Heading for Dictatorship; Soupault, French Poet Says That Roosevelt Will Not Be Chief, However. FINDS 'DEMAGOGIC TREND' He Suggests That 'a Person Like Father Coughlin Will Prepare the Way.'"...
...he said, would come in two stages, first demagogic, then one of the Mussolini type. ...Dr. Randall Stewart of Vanderbilt University, who is editing the third and ...
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January 6, 1935, New York Times, Paraguay and the Chaco; Paraguay: A Gallant Little Nation, by Philip De Ronde, Foreword by Smedley D. Butler, Illustrated with maps and photographs. 123 pp. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. $1.75
Candidly, this book is propaganda. In it Colonel De Ronde, Paraguayan Consul in New York for the past twenty-five years, undertakes to tell what the Chaco ...
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January 29, 1935, Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy; Testimony that the Dickstein Committee Suppressed, by John L. Spivak, [Blog]
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February 10, 1935, New York Times, Carabao in Verse Hail the New Deal; Philippines Campaign Veterans Pledge Support to Tune of 'Casey Jones.'; Huey Long is 'Nominated' ;'News Flashes' Say He Seeks to Displace Aguinaldo and Quezon as Island 'President.'
who recited: I'm Smedley Butler of Newton Square, For notoriety I do not care, I tracked the Nazi right down to their lair, And I swiped the spotlight, of course.
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February 11, 1935, The Evening News [North Tonawanda, NY] page 1, Major Shepard Acquitted of Wife Murder Charge,
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February 11, 1935, The Evening News [North Tonawanda, NY] page 1, Cornelius Vanderbilt Draws Picture of Society,
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February 17, 1935, New York Times, The Nation,
...but mentioned also certain movements, asserting that it had found proof of the story of Major General Smedley D. Butler, who testified that he had been offered ...
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February 17, 1935 Associated Press, Gen. Butler Seeks Eagle As a Lecture Helper,
The trouble is that it is hard to recognize a bald eagle as such until he is fully grown, Clyde Hill of the Denver zoo has informed General Smedley Butler, who ...
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February 17, 1935, New York Times, Books and Authors
Two more books are announced for publication in March: "War Is a Racket," by General Smedley D.Butler, and "The Things That Are Caesar's," by Paul (3.
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February 27, 1935, Buffalo Courier-Express, page 3, Mellon Again is Under Fire in Tax Proceeding;
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February 27, 1935, Buffalo Courier-Express, page 3, "Apology" For Butler is Made by Committee,
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March 11, 1935, New York Times, Books of the Times, by John Chamberlain,
The story is told next day in Mr. Walker's tabloid rag in six-inch headlines, ...Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. would have personally attended to the demise of his various...
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March 25, 1935, The Herald Statesman [Yonkers, NY] page 2, MacGuire Dead; Fascist Probe Blamed by Kin,
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*March 26, 1935, New York Times, G.C M'Guire Dies; Accused of 'Plot'; Was Named as Leading 'Wall St. Move to Seize Government' With 500,000 Veterans,
Smedley D. Butler and later by a Congressional committee that he had said he would head 500,000 World War veterans in a plot to seize the Federal ...
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May 19, 1935, New York Times, Shadows That Fascism Casts Before It; Raymond Gram Swing Sees Portents in the Figures of Huey Long, Father Coughlin and Others, by C. G. Poore,
It may come as a surprise to find that Mr. Swing considers the "Wall Street fascist conspiracy" General Smedley Butler raised a hue and cry over lust "a kind of ...
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May 23, 1935, New York Times, Bonus Movement Swift; page 1, Vote Is Quickly Taken on Heels of Roosevelt Warning in Person.
WASHINGTON, May 22. -- President Roosevelt, setting a historical precedent by appearing before a joint session of Congress today to deliver a veto message in person, rejected the Patman Greenback Bonus Bill. He spoke in face of the certainty that he would be immediately overridden by the House.
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May 23, 1935, New York Times, Highlights of Bonus Vote,
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May 23, 1935, New York Times, page 1, Bonus Movement Swift; Vote Is Quickly Taken on Heels of Roosevelt Warning in Person; Inflation Peril Cited; Administration Is Confident of Victory in Senate, Where Vote Is Likely Today; Veterans Lose One Vote; Pope Withdraws His Support---New Cash Payment Bill Is Planned Immediately,
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May 25, 1935, New York Times, "March" Put Up to General Butler,
-Whether war veterans will organize another "bonus army" to march on the nation's capital was left tonight to a decision to be made by Major General Smedley ...
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June 8, 1935, Cortland Standard, page 6, General Butler Here Tomorrow,
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June 12, 1935, New York Times, Gen. Butler to Speak Here,
General Smedley D. Butler and I Representative Vito ] I are expected to speak Saturday ati $ pm in the Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue, at a by the ...
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June 16, 1935, New York Times, Butler For Bonus Fight; General Tells Veterans to Press Issue at the Polls,
Veterans of the World War were i urged to make their desire for immediate payment of-the bonus felt iat the polls last night by General Smedley Butler, retired, ...
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June 17, 1935, New York Times, Dr. Royal K. Joslin; Served with Marines in World War as Lieutenant,
He went to France with the Thirteenth Regiment of marines under colonel Smedley D. Butler and served during most of the war. In April, 1932, he was retired ...
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*June 21, 1935, New York Times, Major Eastman Dead in Georgia; Retired From Marine Corps in 1930 After 22 Years, Mainly Passed in Insular Posts, Served with Gen. Butler, Commander of Constabulary in Haiti During us Occupation of That Country,
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June 28, 1935, New York Times, Books of the Times; by John Chamberlain,
...Baron Mitsui of Japan, "the richest man in the world"; Smedley Butler contorting his visage irl a characteristic denial, a woman sitting outside the tenement from ...
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June 30, 1935, New York Times, The World in the Camera's Eye; An Uncommonly Effective Pictorial Record of Recent History
Smedley Butler shakes his fist across the headlines that announced his plot revelations. A rather ineffective double-page map of the world captioned, "Will the ...
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July 24, 1935, The Times Record [Troy, NY] The False Prophet,
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August 12, 1935, New York Times - AP, Butler Sees War Drift; General Says Washington Thus Would 'Cover Up Blunders.',
DOVER, NH, Aug. 11 (AP). -Smedley D.Butler, former chief of the marines, told 4000 Veterans of Foreign Wars at their annual convention here today that "the ..
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September 11, 1935, New York Times, Long's Book Jests at His Own Career; 'My First Days in the White House' Was Revised Just Before Senator Died; Roosevelt in 'Cabinet' Hoover Also a 'Member' as Mellon Aids in Mapping Out His 'Share-the-Wealth' Plan,
...portfolios are: Secretary of State, Senator Borah; Secretary of the Treasury, Senator Couzens; Secretary of war, General Smedley D. Butler of Pennsylvania; ...
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September 16, 1935, New York Times, General Butler "Complimented.",
Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler, fiery former marine who was chosen by the late Senator Huey P. Long for Secretary of War in his mythical Presidential Cabinet, ...
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September 18, 1935, New York Times, New Bonus Drive Pledged by VFW; Delegates Cheer Butler as He Urges Them to Centre Their Moves on Congress,
Smedley Butler, retired, attacked the , and ,they yelled just as loudly when ether speakers praised the Prescient and predicted his re-election. The veterans ...
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November 3, 1935, New York Times, D.A.R. Arranging Dance; Ardmore Chapter to Give Autumn Ball Nov. 15 in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Smedley D. Butler, Mrs. wuham A. Becker. Mrs. A. Mercer Bailey. Mrs. Adrian Boericke, Mrs. Howard E. Cupett, Mrs. William R. Chapman Jr., Mrs. William ..
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November 10, 1935, New York Times, Gen. Butler Calls for Stronger Peace; Tells 10,000 in Philadelphia That Neutrality Needs Teeth to Keep Us Out of Wars,
War as a means of settling international disputes was denounced today by Major Gen. Smedley D.Butler, retired marine officer, with a pledge that never again ...
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December 29, 1935, New York Times, Peace Groups to Meet in Cleveland Friday; General Butler Will Talk on 'War Is a Racket' at Mass Gathering.
The main speaker for the mass meeting on Friday night is General Smedley Butler, retired, of the United States Marine Corps. He will talk on "War Is a Racket, " ...
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