StevenWarRan Research: Smedley Butler 1920-1930

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October 16, 1920, New York Times, Daniels Orders Haitian Inquiry and Punishment; Courts-Martial for Accused Marines and Court of Inquiry on Commanders; "Unlawful Killings" Few; Board of Officers Says They Were Isolated Cases--General Record Good; Daniels Not Informed; Secretary Says He Had No Knowledge of Barnett Charges Until Recently,

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December 5, 1920, New York Times, Service Championship Football Game Ends With Score 7-7
Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps, and Rear Admiral A.H. Scales, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, the Quantico Marines and the Great Lakes Naval ...
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March 12, 1921, New York Times, Senate Gets Nominations; Some Are Confirmed--Session May Continue to Monday;
WASHINGTON, March 11.--Nearly a score of nominations were sent today by President Harding to the Senate, which, in turn, confirmed a number. Nominations confirmed by the Senate today were:
Smedley D. Butler, Logan Feland and Harry Les were renominated to their present rank of Brigadier General in the Marine Corps. Reappointment of Carl A.
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March 12, 1921, New York Times, page 3, Harding Takes Up Domestic Affairs; He Has 3 Hours Conference with Cabinet and Afterward Takes Members to Luncheon; Discuss Shipping Board; They Also Consider Naming Alien Property Custodian--He Sends More Nominations to Senate,
WASHINGTON, March 11,--After a three-hour Cabinet meeting today, in which the President departed from precedent by continuing the discussion with his advisers over the luncheon table, it became evident that Mr. Harding has his official family with him in his determination to settle pressing domestic problems before taking up international questions.
Smedley D. Butler, who commanded a brigade of marines !n France, was named as Brigadier General, permanent rank, of the Marine Corps. I ace Paderewski ...
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March 13, 1921, Buffalo [NY] Courier, page 1, Nominations of Stitt and Butler Confirmed,

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March 13, 1921, Buffalo [NY] Courier, page 1, Stillman Charges He Is Not Father of 28-Months-Old Infant,

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October 17, 1921, New York Times, page 2, Hays is Preparing to Move the Mails; Consults Bureau Chiefs on Steps to Be Taken if Railroad Strike Is Called; Vigorous Action Forecast; Labor Leaders Said to Be Within Their Legal Rights in Calling Walkout,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.--Postmaster General Hays spent most of today at the Post Office Department in consultation with the heads of bureaus over the situation which would be presented if the mail train service of the country were tied up by a strike.
Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps, who commands the marine station at Quantico, Va., near Washington, has had much success in previous..years in ...
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June 9, 1922, Buffalo Evening News, page 27, Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg Will Be Vividly Reproduced,

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June 22, 1922, New York Times, What Braddock Lacked; Marines Go Over His Problem With Modern Equipment,
WASHINGTON, June 21.--What might have happened had United Stated marines accompanied General Braddock on his march against the French and Indians was illustrated today when ...
Smedley D. Butler was umpire, as soon as it broke camp at Bethesda this morning. Ten reconnoitred the redskins' and reported to the attacking force of the Fifth ...
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July 2, 1922, New York Times, Harding Watches Pickett's Charge; From an Observation Tower on Cemetery Ridge He Sees Marines Re-enact Attack; Overnight at Gettysburg; Presidential Party, on the Way to Marion, Is Quartered In a Canvas and Wood White House,
Smedley Butler, commandant of the force that is encamped here, and his officers studied the operations around Gettysburg that the exhibition today seemed a ...
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July 10, 1922, New York Times, page 9, Navy Now Using Airplane Carriers; Personnel and Materials Shifted More Quickly and Economically by New Method; NC-9 Transported 20 Men; Big Bathtubs Moved From Gettysburg to Quantico--Army Taking Up the Plan,
WASHINGTON, July 9.--The use of large airplanes for the transportation of men and material between naval stations has been adopted by the Navy De partment with a success that presages further development along these lines throughout the Government service.
Several recent examples of this were furnished in the trip which General Smedley D. Butler, commanding the Marine Corps contingent, now en route from .
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August 13, 1922, New York Times, Marines' New Stadium is Nearly Completed; It Will Seat 33,000 at Football Games--Built Entirely by Soldiers,
General Smedley D. Butler is credited with being the inspiration behind stadium. It was his conception, and he has carried it through despite the fact that ...
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October 27, 1922, Lawrence Daily Journal-World (Kansas) page 1, Italy is Under Fascisti Control,

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October 27, 1922, Lawrence Daily Journal-World (Kansas) page 1, A Bonus Meet On Hill,

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October 29, 1922, New York Times, Sec. Denby and Gen. Pershing See Marines Beat Georgetown
...the game. In the stands, with a big band, wero 3.500 marines from Quantico, frequently led in cheering by Their commander, Brlg. Gen. Smedley Butler.
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November 14, 1922, New York Times, Marines to Hold Rally; Football Game Will Be Feature of Celebration on Dec. 9,
General Smedley D. Butler has written to Governor asking him to lend his interest and influence. F3 's communication a challenge to the best football ...
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December 9, 1922, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, page 6,
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April 29, 1923, New York Times, Marines Boycott Fredericksburg City; Charge III Treatment by Officials and Engage Counsel to Sue for Damages,
QUANTICO, Va., April 28. -- Diplomatic relations between officials of the marine base and the town authorities of Fredericksburg, Va., were definitely severed yesterday with the alleged refusal of the latter to discipline two policemen charged with laying unnecessarily heavy hands upon visiting marines.
Smedley Butler, commandant of the base, who has been handling: the negotiations, stepped-down and allowed Colonel Richard E. Byrd of Richmond, retained ...
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October 6, 1923, New York Times, Coolidge Reviews Marines; Butler, Soon to Retire, Heads Fifth Regiment of Chateau-Thierry Fame,
Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler in command of the Marines, participated, probably, in his last function of the kind. The President, with Mrs. Coolidge, ...
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October 25, 1923, New York Times, To Stay with Marines; Gen.Butler Decides Not to Go With Automobile Manufacturers,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who has been considering an offer to become associated in an executive capacity with a group of ..

November 9, 1923, New York Times, Five Special Trains to Take Marines to Michigan Game
Smedley D. Butler, Commander of the base here, addressed the squad and wished It good luck. Captain Leroy P. Hunt, manager of the team: Lieutenant ...
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November 18, 1923, New York Times, Marines Battle Imams to 14-14 Tie; Quantico Eleven Makes Gallant Fight in Second Half Against Haskell Redskins,
With their backs to the wall on their 3-yard line and on first down with one minute to go, the Quantico Marines carried gn the heritage of Belleau Woods and stopped the attack of the Haskell Indians until the whistle blew, bringing the game between the two teams at the Yankee Stadium yesterday to an end with the score tied at 14-14. Smedley D. Butler. In command at Quantico. and several hundred marines. It was not until the third Quarter that the real battle developed, when, with the score ..
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December 6, 1923, New York Times, A City's Requisition of a General,
If he could obtain leave of absence from Secretary DENBY, Brig. Gen. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER would accept the position of Director of Public Safety which Mayor-elect KENDRICK of Philadelphia has offered, to him. That city is notoriously "wide open." As a clean-living Quaker and a fighting marine, General BUTLER would like to grapple with the reform problem in Philadelphia.
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December 8, 1923, New York Times, Mayor Moore Fights Move to Get Butler; Denies That Philadelphia Needs General to Head the Police, as Kendrick Urges,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7. -- In telegrams to C. Bascom Slemp, President Coolidge's secretary, and Secretary of the Navy Denby, Mayor Moore today branded as ''sensationalism" and "a spectacular misuse of the White House" the attempt of his successor, Mayor-elect Kendrick, to bring Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps here as Director of public Safety under the new city administration. Mayor Moore, in the telegrams, denied statements ...
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December 10, 1923, New York Times, page 9, Pinchot Joins Plea for General Butler; Asks President to Let Marine Officer Tackle Philadelphia Police Conditions,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 9. -- Governor Pinchot has joined Mayor-elect Kendrick in urging President Coolidge to grant a leave of absence for Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps to enable him to serve as Director of the Department of Public Safety of the incoming City Administration.
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December 14, 1923, New York Times, Butler Gets Furlough to Serve Philadelphia; Coolidge Releases General for a Year to Reorganize the City's Police,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- General Smedley D. Butler, known as the "fighting Quaker of the Marines," has obtained a year's furlough, enabling him to accept the post of Director of Public Safety in the Cabinet of Mayor-elect Kendrick of Philadelphia. On learning that the President had granted the furlough General Butler said that he would begin his services in Philadelphia with the new administration.
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December 14, 1923, AP - Lockport Union-Sun and Journal, Army General To Be Director of Police,

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December 21, 1923, New York Times, Police on Army Basis, Urged in Philadelphia; Bill Put in City Council to Reorganize the Force When Gen. Butler Takes Office,
Smedley D. Butler, incoming Public Safety i Director." Outstanding features of the measure are: Increase of the Public Safety Director's salary from $10.000 to ...
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December 23, 1923, New York Times, Article 7 -- No Title, by James C. Young,
THE marines have landed and the situation is well in hand. That is the way Philadelphia feels about its new Director of Public Safety. Smedley D. Butler, Brigadier General in the famous corps, twice winner of the Congressional Medal and almost every other military honor within the gift of the nation.
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January 8, 1924, New York Times, Police Get 48 Hours to Rid Philadelphia of Vice Or Quit Jobs; Gen. Butler's Ultimatum as New Head Follows Mayor Kendrick's Inaugural,
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7. -- A new deal in city government, relentless war for law enforcement and a clean sweep of vice within forty-eight hours were promised by the new City Administration which went into office today.
Next to the Mayor, the outstanding figure of the day was General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, who has received a year's leave of absence from President ..
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January 9, 1924, New York Times, Police Padlock 27 Saloons,
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 (Associated Press). -- Spurred into action by the orders of General Butler, the police this afternoon raided twenty-seven cider saloons, padlocked their doors and arrested two alleged proprietors when they attempted to spill the contents of jugs as the raiders entered their places.
Spurred into action by the orders of General Butler, the police this afternoon ...and immoral characters fleeing from the "clean-up" of General Smedley D. Butler, ...
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January 10, 1924, New York Times, page 5, Begin Cleveland Clean-Up; Several Hundred Arrested in Raids -- Slot Machines Seized,
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 9. -- Under orders of Edwin D. Barry, Director of Public Safety, transmitted in turn by Chief Jacob Graul, every police captain in the city began raids against slot machines in his district, and on other forms of gambling and vice tonight. Several hundred persons were arrested in the first raids.
Mr. Barry, who was being compared by many observers to General Smedley D. Butler, the new director of police in Philadelphia, placed the police chief in...
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January 10, 1924, New York Times, New Crimes Bring Order to Police to 'Clean Up' the City; General Round-Up of All Known Criminals Begun With Arrests on Broadway,
Police Commissioner Enright's ban against criminals fleeing from Philadelphia to this city was extended into a general round-up of crooks here yesterday by Inspector John D. Coughlin, head of the Detective Division.
Smedley D. Butler, the new Director of Public Safety there. Inspector Coughlin added that pickpockets and other petty thieves now were the agents for more ...
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January 10, 1924, Buffalo Evening News, page 14, U.S. Warships Assemble for Canal Attack;

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January 12, 1924, The Saratogian, page 6, Butler to Wage Fight On Bandits in Philadelphia,

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January 12, 1924, Buffalo Evening News, page 2, Can Kendrick Stand Gaff? Philadelphians Are Asking; Politicians Stalk Him When General Butler's Vice Crusade Appears "On the Level",

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January 12, 1924, Buffalo Courier, page 1, Dissension Reigns In K.K.K. as Two Chiefs Are Fired,

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January 12, 1924, Buffalo Courier, page 2, Dissension Reigns In K.K.K. as Two Chiefs Are Fired,

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January 12, 1924, New York Times, Hunt For Criminals Fails to Land Any; Detectives Report City Clear of Known Characters, and None From Philadelphia; 6 Robbery Suspects Freed; Four Men Caught In Spectacular Arrest on Broadway -- Liquor Found in the Loot,
Inspector Coughlin's clean-up of criminals in the city came to a stop yesterday when detectives reported that they had not found any known criminals making this city a rendezvous and could not find any undesirables who had fled from the campaign against crime and vice being conducted in Philadelphia by General Smedley D. Butler, the new Director of Public Safety there.
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January 14, 1924, New York Times, page 2, All Crime Falls Off in Philadelphia; Not a Single Robbery Is Reported in 24 Hours -- Only Four for the Week,
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13. -- After the first four days of the "clean-up" of Philadelphia ordered by General Butler, Director of Public Safety, the city registered a drop of about 44 per cent. in Saturday night drunkenness, according to figures obtained in the police stations today. Although police figures showed that 1,388 saloons have been closed, 181 persons throughout the city obtained enough liquor Saturday to get themselves arrested. After the first four days of the "clean-up" of Philadelphia ordered by General Butler, ...pastor of' Central Congregational Church, referred to Smedley D. Butler, ...
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January 14, 1924, New York Times, Police See Shake-Up as Work of Hylan; Expect More Action; Mayor Aims at a "Spotless, Town" With No Gambling, Vice or Liquor,
Something like panic ran through the Police Department yesterday when the word passed that Mayor Hylan was back of the record shake-up of the department, and that the order to prepare charges against thirteen Inspectors was only the start of a general round-up of alleged duty shirkers.
The spectacular campaign of Brigadier General Smedley Butler in Philadelphia, it was said, had not inspired Mayor Hylan in any way. As the direct result of the ..
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January 21, 1924, New York Times, Philadelphia Raids Net 1,045 Prisoners; Police Enter 700 Places in 48-Hour Drive and Frustrate Six Hold-ups,
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20. -- Station houses were crowded tonight with prisoners taken in the second forty-eight-hour drive of General Smedley D. Butler, Director of Public Safety, to clean up the city.
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January 31, 1924, New York Times, Supreme Authority Awarded to Butler; Civil Service Commission Grants Director Power to Fine Philadelphia Force,
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30. -- Unrestricted disciplinary power over the Police Bureau was given to Director of Public Safety Smedley D. Butler today by the Civil Service Commission.
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January 31, 1924, The Bolivar [NY] Breeze, page 1, Philadelphia's 'Big Two',

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February 23, 1924, New York Times, page 4, Dedicate Memorial to the War Dead; People of Chattanooga Open Million-Dollar Auditorium With Notable Gathering; Coolidge Praises Spirit; Blue and Gray Honor the World War Victims With Old Battle Flags,
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 22. -- Business practically was suspended here today while the people joined in the dedication of the Chattanooga Memorial Auditorium, erected and equipped, at a cost of about a million dollars, in memory of the men from this city and county who gave their lives in any branch of the national defense during the World War....from the navy by Rear Admiral W.R. Shoemaker, from the Marine Corps by General Smedley D. Butler, Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia, and from the State ..
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March 9, 1924, New York Times, Methodists Laud Butler; Jersey Conference Commends Philadelphia Campaign Against Crime,
A resolution commending Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick and Brigadier General Smedley Butler, Director of Public Safety of Philadelphia, for their efforts to ...
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March 22, 1924, New York Times, page 19, Butler Asks Less Pay; Wants Marine Allowance Withheld While He Serves Philadelphia,
WASHINGTON, March 21. -- Under the terms of an amendment to the Naval Appropriation bill adopted in the House today the pay to which Gen. Smedley M. Butler is entitled as a Marine officer will be withheld as long as he retains the office of Police Commissioner of Philadelphia.
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April 9, 1924, New York Times, Butler to Punish Officers; Says He Has Been "Double-Crossed" by Half of His Lieutenants,
PHILADELPHIA, April 8. -- Director of Public Safety Smedley D. Butler declared tonight that some of the men closest to him in the Police Department had "doubled-crossed" him and that as a result the department would be subjected to the most drastic and far-reaching shakeup in its history.
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June 14, 1924, New York Times, 50 Bands to Play as Masons Parade; Uniformed Police From Philadelphia and Boston Will March in Pageant Today,
The National League of Masonic Clubs, in convention at the Hotel Astor, has decided against establishing headquarters in Washington. The vote was 442 to 107. The proposal was passed at the convention in Boston last year, and a spirited debate followed the introduction of the subject at yesterday's session.
...In the party; which will Mayor Freeland Kendrick and General Smedley D. Butler Director of Public Safety, are 600 uniformed policemen. The visitors will be met ..
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June 18, 1924, New York Times, College Has Sham Fight; General Butler Attends Pennsylvania Military School's Commencement,
...marked commencement preliminaries of the Pennsylvania Military College today, with general Smedley D. Butler, Director of Public Safety of Philadelphia, ...
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June 24, 1924, New York Times, 25,000 City Workers March, Led by Hylan; Resplendent Army of Firemen, Policemen and Street Cleaners Parades With 50 Bands,
More than 25,000 city officials, policemen, firemen and street cleaners marched yesterday in the city's greatest municipal parade, while a few hundred thousand people looked on from the Fifth Avenue sidewalks, from nearly every window fronting on the avenue and from the cornices of many buildings.
A good second in the interest of the crowd was General Smedley D. Butler the hero of the Battle of Philadelphia, who was one of the many notables in the ...
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July 6, 1924, New York Times, Haitian Marksmen Amaze the Rifle-Shooting World; Islanders, Who Were Trained by the United States Marines, Tie With France for Second Place at the Olympic Targets at Paris,
FEW Americans read with more than the most fleeting interest the announcement that the rifle team of the Republic of Haiti had tied with the French team for second place in the Olympic rifle matches, pressing the victorious American leans close and outdistancing a score of the nations of Europe and South America in the blue-ribbon shooting event of the world. Smedley D. Butler now Director of Public Safety at Philadelphia. According to the plan adopted, the island republic was divided into districts and subdistricts, ...
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July 16, 1924, New York Times, Ex-Employe of Vanderbilt Paper Sues Ladies' Home Journal.
The article referred to purported to be an interview with Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.. whose corporation publishes a tabloid newspaper. The Daily News, .in Los ...
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July 20, 1924, New York Times, 10 Police Stations Closed by Enright; Precincts Are Wiped Out and Many Captains Shifted in Reorganization,
Police Commissioner Enright continued his reorganization of the Police Department yesterday, wiping out ten precinct stations and transferring many Captains having charge of detectives.
The charges were preferred against the twelve Inspectors. Just after the spectacular, police methods of General Smedley D. Butler in Philadelphia had fixed...
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July 16, 1924, New York Times, Ex-Employe of Vanderbilt Paper Sues Ladies' Home Journal.

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July 16, 1924, The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Utah) page 4, Sues Ladies Home Journal for Libel,

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July 21, 1924, New York Times, page 4, Kendrick Prepares to Oust Gen. Butler; Philadelphia Mayor Ready to Act This Week Unless Chief "Listens to Reason",
PHILADELPHIA, July 20. -- Harassed beyond endurance by the political bosses, whose control of the Philadelphia police had been thrown off, Mayor Kendrick has decided to abandon his pledges of support and this week will discharge Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler as head of the police. From sources so close to the administration that there is no room for doubt, the pending action was revealed today.
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July 21, 1924, Buffalo Evening News, page 8, The Cleaned-Up City,

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July 28, 1924, New York Times, 500 Churches Want Gen. Butler to Stay; Philadelphia Congregations Adopt Resolutions Calling on the Mayor to Keep Him in Office,
PHILADELPHIA, July 27. -- Nearly 500 congregations of churches of all denominations today adopted resolutions urging the retention of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler as Director of Public Safety. The action was taken in response to a call issued by the Rev. Dr. Frank B. Lynch, President of the Philadelphia Federation of Churches.
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August 2, 1924, New York Times, Ralph Wants $150,000 From Young Publisher of Los Angeles Tabloid.
Cornelius ,Vanderbilt Jr., 26 years old, publisher of The Los Angeles Daily ...Edward J. Ralph; his former secretary and director of the tabloid daily, filed the suit, ...
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September 20, 1924, New York Times, Republican Clubs Raided by Butler; Politicians and Gamblers Awed by Arrest of 92 Men as Gambling Suspects,
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 19. -- General Smedley D. Butler, Director of Public Safety, "went the limit" today, from a political point of view, when vice squad men, amid exciting scenes, raided the Union Republican Club of the Tenth Ward, at Fifteenth and Arch Streets, and the Washington Square Social Club, in Eighth Street above Walnut, as alleged gambling houses.
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September 27, 1924, New York Times, Stone Seeks Facts in 'Corruption' Talk; He Summons Philadelphians to Prove Charges Resulting From Kendrick-Butler Row; Federal Officials In It; Mrs. Willebrandt Is Said to Be Complainant Over Interference in Law Enforcement,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. -- Attorney General Stone has begun an inquiry into charges of "political corruption among Federal office holders in Pennsylvania," and has invited William R. Nicholson Jr., Secretary of the Law Enforcement League of Philadelphia, who made them, to come here to present his evidence. Smedley D. Butler. It had been freely reported that the Mayor soon would request General Butler's resignation, and the Law League is that ...
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September 27, 1924, Buffalo [NY] Courier, page 2, Stone Enquiring Into Charges of Graft in Pennsy, Attorney General Looks Into Butler-Kendrick Disagreement,

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September 27, 1924, Buffalo [NY] Courier, page 1,

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September 27, 1924, Buffalo [NY] Courier, page 2, Wales Greets His Masonic Brethren at Lodge Meeting,

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September 27, 1924, Buffalo [NY] Courier, page 2, Discovery of Series of Mystery Tunnels Arouses Washington,

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September 30, 1924, The NY Sun, page 8, Physicians Keep Butler at Home; 30,000 to 50,000 Protest Removal of General as Head of Philadelphia Police,

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September 30, 1924, New York Times, page 2, Retention of Butler, Mass Meeting Demand; 'Let's March On City Hall!' Cry in Philadelphia Outburst Against Kendrick,
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29. -- With frequent heated outbursts, the mass meeting in the Academy of Music tonight by the Law Enforcement League to force the retention of General Smedley D. Butler as Director of Public Safety unanimously passed resolutions demanding that he be continued in office.
With frequent heated outbursts, the mass meeting in the Academy of Music tonight by the Law Enforcement League to force the retention of General Smedley D.
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October 1, 1924, The Saratogian, page 1, Philadelphia Officials May Settle Differences; Arbitration and Security Protocol Presented to League,

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October 5, 1924, New York Times, Fugitive Banker Caught; M. Tauster of Defunct East Side Institution Taken in Ontario,
NORTH BAY, Ont., Oct. 4. -- Max Bauman, North Bay drygoods salesman, was identified tonight by former employees of the defunct Gerfunkel Tauster Bank of New York as the missing Marcus Tauster. Detective John Cunniff of New York is here to take Tauster back, but his attorney states tonight that Tauster will fight extradition.
Southampton and Hamburg was General Smedley D. Butler, head of the Philadelphia police, who was seeing off his 18-year-old daughter Ethel. She was ...
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October 19, 1924, New York Times, Marine Corps Beats Georgetown by 6-0; Captures Contest Before Secretary Wilbur and Army Officials by Two Field Goals,
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 18. -- Georgetown University went down to defeat before 10,000 football fans, included among them Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, Major Generals Lejeune and Cole and General Smedley Butler and other army and navy dignitaries at the American League Park here today.
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October 21 1924, The New York Sun, page 12, Gen. Butler Roars a Threat; Tells Philadelphia Police Lieutenants They Face a Shakeup,

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October 22, 1924, New York Times, Hold On To Coolidge, Gen. Dawes Advises; Warns Philadelphians Against Changing "Close President Who Watches the Nickels",
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21. -- Lessons learned in establishment of the Federal budget system were held up tonight by Charles G. Dawes, Republican Vice Presidential nominee, as a warning to the American people against making "any experiments in changing from a close President who watches the nickels."
Dawes aroused his audience at the start by commending the people of Philadelphia as "loyal enough arid enough to stand by my friend, Smedley D. Butler.
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November 28, 1924, Buffalo Evening News, page 1, Butler May Stick as Philly Police Chief,

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November 29, 1924, New York Times, General Butler To Stay,
Mayor KENDRICK of Philadelphia has confounded his critics by announcing that General SMEDLEY D. BUTLER will continue to be the head of the Police and Fire Departments of the city for three years after Jan. 1, if he can obtain leave of absence from the Marine Corps.
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December 6, 1924, New York Times, page 11, Gen. Butler's Recall is Said to Be Urged; Capital Report Has House Naval Committee Recommending That Coolidge Take Action,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. -- The recall of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps to his work in that service instead of remaining for three years longer as head of the Philadelphia police force was reported today to have been recommended by the House Naval Affairs Committee to President Coolidge.
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December 7, 1924, New York Times, page 24, Gen. Butler's Recall Urged by Senators; Naval Committee Tells Coolidge That It Disapproves Letting Philadelphia Keep Him,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. -- Opposition by the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs to granting a further leave of absence to Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler of the Marine Corps so that he might continue as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia for three years more was communicated to President Coolidge today through the Chairman, Senator Hale of Maine.
Opposition by the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs to granting a further leave of absence to Brig. Gen.Smedley Butler of the Marine Corps so that he might ...
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December 8, 1924, New York Times, Still Seek Police Head; Two Army Officers Considered for Schenectady Force,
France. under General Smedley D.Butler. head of the Philadelphia Police Department, and Colonel Sweet under General Leonard %Vood in organizing the ..
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December 8, 1924, Cortland Standard, page 1, Reichstag Control Uncertain Through Yesterday's Election,

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December 8, 1924, Kingston Daily Freeman, Butler's Leave Not Extended,

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December 9, 1924, New York Times, Dyer Asked to Head Schenectady Police; Army Officer Expected to Reorganize Force and Clean Up the City,
He was recommended as the right man for the post by General Smedley D. Butler , who accomplished in Philadelphia what city officials hope to see done here.
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December 9, 1924, The Saratogian, page 1, Only One Year More For Butler As Police Head,

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December 10, 1924, New York Times, page 7, Gen. Butler's Leave Extended One Year; President Tells Philadelphia Mayor No Further Grant Will Be Made,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. -- Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler received today another year's leave of absence from duty with the Marine Corps to continue his work as Director of Public Safety of Philadelphia.
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler received today another year's leave of absence from duty with the Marine Corps to continue his work as Director of Public Safety of ...
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January 8, 1925, New York Times, Won't Pay Officers Serving Outside.
The action, which apply to General Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps, would limit Government pay to the usual period covered by regulations, unless ...
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February 1, 1925, New York Times, Nicaragua Now Placid, So Our Marines Leave; Lost Company, Once Led by Smedley Butler, Has Guarded Our Interests in Managua Since 1912 -- Orderly Government Seems to Be Established, by Gardner L. Harding,
Their annals tell that it was Captain Smedley D. Butler who led them there. There was a charge, well remembered in marine history, and there was for a time ...
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May 12, 1925, New York Times, Fewer Hold-Ups in Philadelphia,
...so far this Year compared with last year, and a 66 2-3 per cent. decrease compared with 1923. General Smedley D. Butler, Director of Public Safety was pleased
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May 16, 1925, Buffalo Evening News, page 6, Crime and the Newspaper,

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May 17, 1925, New York Times, page 1, War on Bootleggers in Big Wet Cities is Next on Program; New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Will Be Attacked by Federal Forces; Move on Smuggling First; Strategists Expect Easier Task Here Then -- Mellon Anxious to Dry Up Pennsylvania; End of Rum Row Hailed; Aid to Coast Guard Commander Tours Dry-War Front and Finds Only 12 Whisky Ships,
WASHINGTON, May 16. -- The next offensive in the Federal Government's rum war will be directed against the bootlegging sectors. After the Government has conquered the whisky smuggling forces at points on the coasts and along the borders the reorganized prohibition army will concentrate on all other violations.
General Smedley D. Butler, the "fighting Quaker of the Marines," now Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia, will be brought into the war when the Federal ...
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June 30, 1925, New York Times, page 8, Prohibition Unit to Be Militarized; Former Army and Navy Officers Will Command the 22 Areas Under Reorganization; Present Force to Be Cut 400 in Washington and 700 in the Field; Will Lose Their Places on Aug. 1,
WASHINGTON, June 29. -- In order to impart more vim to the enforcement of the dry laws. Treasury officials now in charge of the field work of the prohibition unit have decided to engage a number of former army and navy officers....hopes that among them will be Some Wing will tackle the jobs in the Way that General Smedley Butler. 5 officer, has gone after bootleggers ill Philadelphia.
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July 8, 1925, New York Times, Butler Starts Libel Suit; Philadelphia Police Head Has Warrants Issued for 8 Newspaper Men,
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Director of Public Safety, today caused warrants to be issued for eight persons connected with The Philadelphia Daily News. a ..
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July 18, 1925, New York Times, page 12, Militarizing Our Laws, by Frances S. Craven,
With specific regard to General Smedley Butler of the Marines, Mr. Pennell states that he asked a Philadelphia "barkeep" what General Butler would say about a ...
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July 21, 1925, Buffalo Evening News, page 8, War Declarations,

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July 22, 1925, New York Times, page 12, Change in Marine Command; Gen. Williams Relieves Gen Feland as Lejeune's Assistant,
General Williams succeeded General Smedley D. Butler in command of the Expeditionary Force at Quantico and had an important part in framing the plans for the ...
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July 28, 1925, Buffalo Evening News, page 15, Williams Promoted to Marine Headquarters,

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August 4, 1925, New York Times, Smedley Butler Another Visitor at the Resort,
Among the visitors at Coney Island last night were General Smedley D. Butler,
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September 27, 1925, New York Times, Gen. Butler Reviews Philadelphia 'Clean-Up'; Has Reduced Crime by Half in Two Years, Says Director of Public Safety, Who Soon Will Return to the Marines -- Faced Many Obstacles
PHILADELPHIA'S experiment in civic virtue under the direction of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, United States Marine Corps, is drafting to a close. In the words of the General himself, his efforts have made him as popular in Philadelphia as a porcupine at a picnic.
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October 16, 1925, New York Times, Topics of the Times,
...Senator PEPPER has promised to see the President at the request of Mayor KENDRICK of Philadelphia, and ask him to give General SMEDLEY D.BUTLER ...
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October 20, 1925, Courtland Standard, page 1, Mayor Kendrick to Petition that Butler Be Given Leave,

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October 31, 1925, New York Times, Kendrick in Person Asks For Butler; Coolidge Defers Decision, but Is Cool to Proposal at Conference,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. -- Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia personally urged on President Coolidge at the White House today the granting of a third year's leave of absence to Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps so that he could continue as Director of Public Safety and war on Philadelphia liquor-law violators.
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November 1, 1925, New York Times, Secretary Wilbur Among Those to See Quantico Team Win, 13-6.
John A. Lejeune, Commandant of the Marine Corps, and Brig. Gen. SmedleyButler, Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia. Ed Pugb, former
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November 2, 1925, New York Times, Churches Want Butler; 1500 Congregations and Sunday Schools Appeal to Coolidge,
...1 this city today adopted resolutions urg-I ! ing President Coolidge to extend the [ i leave of absence from the Marine Corps{ of General Smedley Butler in order ...
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November 4, 1925, New York Times, President Refuses Butler More Leave; Declines Requests by Senator Pepper and Philadelphia's Mayor for Extension; Refers to Former Letter; Sees No New Elements Which Require Marine Officer to Continue Police Work,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (AP). -- President Coolidge declined today to extend the leave of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps to permit him to continue to serve after Dec. 31 as head of Philadelphia's Police Department.
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November 4, 1925, Buffalo Evening News, page 12, Butler May Quit Marines to Fight Rum,

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November 5, 1925, New York Times, Gen. Butler Undecided; Won't Say Whether He Will Stay In the Marine Corps or Resign,
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 4 (AP). -- Philadelphia waited in vain today for a definite statement from Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler as to whether he would return to the Marine Corps the first of the year or resign his commission and remain here as Director of Public Safety.
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November 6, 1925, Buffalo Evening News, page 8, Butler's Leave Ends,

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December 6, 1925, New York Times, Butler Denounces Feeding Wine to Girls; He Announces Campaign to Stop It in Connection With Ritz-Carlton Padlock Suit,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5 (AP). -- General Smedley D. Butler, Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety, says that "feeding young girls wine and punch in fashionable hotels" has got to stop.
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December 21, 1925, The Portville Review, Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler,

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December 22, 1925, Union-Sun and Journal [Lockport, NY] page 1, Butler and Kendrick Reach Showdown; General Resigns From Marines; Philadelphia Mayor Fires Him,

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December 22, 1925, Cortland Standard, page 1, Gen. Butler Resigns From Marine Corp

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December 22, 1925, The Saratogian, page 1, Butler Rebuffed by Mayor After Quitting Marines,

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December 22, 1925, The Saratogian, page 1, Munsey, Millionaire Publisher, Dead; Death Caused by Peritonitis After Operation;

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December 23, 1925, New York Times, Temperamental General Butler,
General Smedley D. Butler's enemies will exult over his dilemma as an officer of Marines who has sent in his resignation from the military service, only to ...
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December 24, 1925, New York Times, page 1, Butler in Quitting Fires Shot at Mayor; General Says Kendrick Ordered Him to 'Lay Off' Big Hotels in Dry Campaign; Letters Reveal Conflict; Philadelphia Executive Asks Public Support -- Ex-Police Head Going Back to Marines,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23. -- General Smedley D. Butler quit office as Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety today with a Parthian verbal volley at Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick, charging that the Mayor had ordered him to "lay off the big places" in enforcing the prohibition law, and that the Executive had told him there was "a difference between a $7,000,000 investment and a cheap place which blackmails people."
General Smedley D. Butler quit office as Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety today with a Parthian verbal volley at Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick, charging that ...
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December 25, 1925, New York Times, page 26, Butler Saves Fire Till Mayor Talks; General Intimates He Will Give Philadelphia Expose in Sunday Address at Pittsburgh; Successor Keeps Policy; Elliott Calls on Police to Hold Down Dry Lid and Be Vigilant Against Bandits,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 24. -- Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, dismissed from his office as Director of Public Safety by Mayor V. Freeland Kendrick and quitting it yesterday with a threat of reprisals against the Mayor, left Philadelphia tonight for West Chester to spend Christmas with his parents without making another statement in substantiation of his charges that the Mayor impeded his efforts to "dry up" Philadelphia.
Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, dismissed from his office as Director of Public Safety by Mayor V. Freeland Kendrick and quitting it yesterday with a threat ...
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December 27, 1925, New York Times, page 3, Butler Will Fire Broadside Today; General Goes to Pittsburgh to Tell Inside Facts of Philadelphia Fight,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 26 -- Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who took prohibition enforcement seriously and was "fired" as Director of Public Safety in this city, left Philadelphia late tonight for Pittsburgh. He announced that he would tell his story of the Philadelphia liquor and political situation in an address tomorrow afternoon before the Pennsylvania Association of Bible Classes in that city.
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who took prohibition enforcement seriously and was "fired" as Director of Public Safety in this city, left Philadelphia late tonight for ...
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December 28, 1925, New York Times, page 1, Butler's Last Shots Hit Philadelphia, Its Mayor and 'Gang'; He Declares Vice and Politics Have Turned the City Into a "Cesspool"; Puts Blame On Kendrick; Executive Broke His Promises, Says General, and Then the "Gang" Got Him; Tells of Corruption Fund; Scathing Address to 3,000 "Drys" at Pittsburgh Heard by Pinchot, Who Backs Him,
Wearing a smart Marine Corps uniform instead of the policeman s outfit he had worn for two years in Philadelphia, Brig. Gen. Smedley D.Butler delivered what ...
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December 28, 1925, The New York Sun, page 3, Butler Rejoins Marines and is Assigned Post; Recalls Resignation After Final Speech Scoring Mayor Kendrick; Will Go to San Diego; In Address in Pittsburgh He Scores Philadelphia and Its Executive,

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December 29, 1925, New York Times, page 25, Butler Back in Marines; He Withdraws Resignation After Talk Talk With General Lejeune,
Secretary Wilbur announced this afternoon that Brig. Gem Smedley Butler. until recently Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia. has withdrawn his resignation ...
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December 30, 1925, New York Times, page 2, Philadelphia Arid as Butler Left It; New Police Head Satisfies Civic Bodies and Hotels That the General's Lid Stays On; But Duration is Doubtful; Dry League Fears Elliott Will Be Forced Out and Women Predict "Wet" Exposition,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29. -- Contrary to some expectations, Philadelphia today is outwardly just as dry and respectable as before the dismissal of Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler last week as Director of Public Safety.
Contrary to some expectations, Philadelphia today is outwardly just as dry and respectable as before the dismissal of Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler last ...
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January 3, 1926, New York Times, By-Products,
...visit to headquarters mounted the front steps two at a time .... This would be a good omen if not for what happened to General Smedley Butler in Philadelphia.
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January 8, 1926, New York Times, Vanderbilt Widow Keeps Chateau Art; Heckscher Contract Gives List of Items Exempted From Sale of Mansion,

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January 10, 1926, New York Times, Wondering Throng Views the Chateau; Crowds Pass All Day Through the Vanderbilt House,

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January 13, 1926, New York Times, Smith and Bride in South; Former Miss Vanderbilt on Island That Bars Autos and Horses,

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January 17, 1926, New York Times, To Save Odd Statue On Vanderbilt House; Figure of a Stonemason, With Likeness of the Architect, May Go to Museum,

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January 28, 1926, New York Times, Liner to Sail Today For the Holy Land; Samaria Will Leave Will Leave at Noon on Chartered Cruise to the Mediterranean; Lady Howard on Aquitania; Wife of British Ambassador and Other Notable Visitors on the Cunarder and the France,
Smedley D. Butler, rs. Butler land three children, Air. and ]rs. fc Berteau, Mr. and Airs. Leon G. Ghetti. Major L. AI. Gray, Thomas A. Forbes, Air. and Mrs. William D.
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March 1, 1926, New York Times, Vanderbilt House Demolition Begins; Razing of 52d St. Mansion to Be Finished in Six Weeks,

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March 11, 1926, New York Times, page 3, Gen. Butler Causes His Host's Arrest; Charges That Col Williams Was Intoxicated Following Dinner Party in San Diego,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 10. -- Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who recently was assigned to the command of the Marine Corps base here after a leave of absence as head of the Philadelphia Police Department, where he carried on a liquor and vice crusade, caused the arrest today of Colonel Alexander Williams of the Marine Corps on a charge of intoxication.
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who recently was assigned to the command of the Marine Corps base here after a leave of absence as head of the Philadelphia ...
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March 12, 1926, New York Times, page 1, Dry League Heads Will See Coolidge in Fight on 'Wets; Anti-Saloon Body's National Committee Arranges to Call Tomorrow; Senate Bills Are Shifted; Judiciary Committee Orders Report by Subcommittee on Plan for Hearings; Banker Hits Prohibition; Wellborn of the Federal Reserve Calls Law a Failure -- House Debates Butler Incident,
WASHINGTON, March 11. -- The prohibition issue will be taken to the White House Saturday when President Coolidge receives a delegation of members of the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America, who are coming to Washington for a conference in which they will map a campaign to head off the movement for modification of the Volstead law.
Smedley D. Butler, Marine Corps commandant at San Diego, Cal., that Colonel Alexander Williams had been guilty of intoxication and acts unbecoming an .
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March 12, 1926, New York Times, Rally to Defense of Col. Williams; Friends Declare Officer Accused by General Butler Was Not Intoxicated; Butler Explains His Stand; Says Incident Occurred in Hotel and He Was Not Colonel's Guest at the Time,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 11 (AP). -- Although the impression among navy and marine officers today was that the court martial of Colonel Alexander Williams of the Marine Corps, charged by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler with intoxication in a public place, would not be held for several weeks, if the court-martial is ordered, friends of Colonel Williams were busy today assembling evidence in his behalf.
...charged by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler with intoxication in a public place, would not be held for several weeks, if the court-martial is ordered, friends ..
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March 13, 1926, New York Times, page 4, Butler Defends Arrest of Officer; Declares He Only Did His Duty Charging Colonel With Intoxication; Labor Attacks General; San Diego Council Asks Wilbur for Inquiry, Calling Recent Speech "Anarchistic",
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 12. -- Statements that General Smedley D. Butler, Commander of the marine base here, was taunted into preferring charges of intoxication against Colonel Alexander S. Williams of the Fourth Regiment of Marines, and a demand for an investigation of alleged "inflammatory and anarchistic" remarks made by the marine chief before the Hammer Club, a local organization of service men, today added to the storm caused by the "cocktail party" case.
Statements that General Smedley D. Butler, Commander of the marine base here, was taunted into preferring charges of intoxication against Colonel Alexander ..
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March 13, 1926, The Saratogian, page 1, Butler Goes to Hospital; Silent On Cocktail Charge,

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March 13, 1926, The Saratogian, page 1, Count Salm Quitting US, Blaming 'Unfair Methods',

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March 13, 1926, The Saratogian, page 1, Governor Pinchot To Be Candidate For U.S. Senate,

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March 14, 1926, New York Times, page 1, Gen. Butler Collapses at Naval Hospital, Partly From Worry Over Williams Arrest,
With Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commander of the marine base here, confined to the Naval Hospital as the result of a nervous collapse attributed to infected ..
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March 15, 1926, New York Times, page 2, Gen. Butler Reported in Serious Condition; But Some Improvement Is Noted Since He Entered the Marine Base Hospital,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 14.--General Smedley D. Butler, commander of the local Marine Base, is reported to be in a serious condition at the Naval Base Hospital in Balboa Park as the result of having ten infected teeth extracted yesterday and worry over the complications following his charges of intoxication preferred against Colonel Alexander Williams of the Fourth Regiment.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 14. General Smedley D. Butler, commander of the local Marine Base, is reported to be in a serious condition at the Naval Base ...
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March 15, 1926, New York Times, America Never Retreats; Assails Those Who Argue Over the Bible as Backsliders Who Are Not Really Sincere,
Gem Smedley D. Butler for his act in charging a subordinate officer, Colonel Alexander Williams, with drinking. Dr. Poling, part, said: "General Butler, ...
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March 16, 1926, New York Times, Gen. Butler in Hospital for 2 Weeks,
General Smedley D. Butler of the Corps will be a patient at the Balboa Park Naval Hospital for two weeks, it was announced today by Captain Raymond Spear, ...
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March 23, 1926, New York Times, Washington Gets Williams Reply,
The rejoinder of Colonel Alexander Williams, Marine Corps, to the charge of i intoxication laid against him by Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler in San Diego, Cal,, ...
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March 24, 1926, New York Times, Authorizes Williams Trial; Secretary Wilbur Acts on Report of Gen. Butler, Charging Drunkenness,
A court-martial will pass on the case of Colonel Alexander Williams of the Marine Corps, charged with drunkenness by Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler. Secretary ..
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March 26, 1926, New York Times, page 7, Col. Williams May Plead Guilty to Save Guests At Cocktail Party, Including Gen. Butler,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 25. -- Charged with intoxication and conduct unbecoming an officer, Colonel Alexander Williams, Fourth Regiment, U.S.M.C., probably will plead guilty before a general courtmartial to meet here to consider the accusations made by his superior, Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Commander of the Marine base here, according to the Colonel's friends.
Smedley D. Butler, Commander of the Marine base here, according to the Colonel's friends. Colonel Williams will take this action to save his friends, all of whom ..
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March 29, 1926, New York Times, page 5, Officers Hold Butler Cannot Prove Charge; Williams Will Base Defense on Contention That He Was Ill and Not Intoxicated,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 28. -- Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commander of the local marine base, will not be able to prove that Colonel Alexander Williams, Fourth Regiment, U.S.M. C., was intoxicated during or following an alleged cocktail party at the Williams home in Coronado, in the opinion of high ranking military and naval officers, who expressed that view here today.
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commander of the local marine base, will not be able to prove that Colonel Alexander Williams, Fourth Regiment, USMC, was ..
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April 4, 1926, New York Times, April Arrives to See About Backward Spring
Gen. Smedley Butler' recent activities in San Diego. A man on the way to the dentist s with ten jumping teeth is more to be pitied than censured, all seem to feel.
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April 5, 1926, New York Times, Will Weld Fascism in Trip to Tripoli; Mussolini in Declaration on Warship Plans to Rout "Party Gossipings",

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April 6, 1926, New York Times, Marine Officers Shifted; Transfer of Eleven From San Diego Linked With Williams Case.
Some of the officers who received transfer orders are said to have been! ,guests at the party, where General Smedley D. Butler, commander of the: base,, was the ...
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April 6, 1926, New York Times, page 5, Italian Ambition Worries the French; Mussolini's Coming Trip to Tripoli Seen as Prelude to Portentous Events,

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April 7, 1926, New York Times, page 11, Mussolini Wants Mandate To Syria; But His Anxiety to Obtain It May Influence the French Not to Relinquish It.,

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April 7, 1926, New York Times, page 12, Davis Wants Laws Enacted For War; Secretary Offers a Plan for "Legislative Preparedness" to House Committee, Council Would Draft It; President, He Says, Could Then Act Promptly in the Event of a National Emergency,
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April 8, 1926, New York Times, page 7, Italy Tries To Join Wireless League, Mussolini Is Anxious to Share in $4,000,000 Radio Station at Rio de Janeiro, Pressed by Italians There; But Won't Pay $1,000,000 for Admission -- League No Longer Considers His Application,
MONTE CARLO, April 7. -- Premier Mussolini, in keeping with his plans for a greater Italy, is making a determined effort to get in the new "Wireless League of Nations," the chief representatives of which are holding an important conference at Monte Carlo this week.

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April 9, 1926, New York Times, page 1, Mussolini Sail In Blaze of Glory; Surging Crowds Shout, Sirens Shriek and Guns Salute as He Leaves for Tripoli, TE DEUMS IN THE CHURCHES; His Assailant Says in Prison That a "Supernatural Force" Impelled Her "Mission."
ROME, April 8. -- The first investigations by the police would seem to prove conclusively that the attempt on Premier Mussolini's life yesterday was not a political plot but the impulsive, isolated act of a crazed mind. The details of Miss Violet Albina Gibson's life in Rome leave no doubt that she was not in her right mind, while no evidence has been found that her insane deed was instigated or suggested by any one.

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April 9, 1926, New York Times, Ashbournes Send Sympathy; Brother and Sister-in-Law of Miss Gibson Telegraph Mussolini,

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April 9, 1926, New York Times, The Attempt on Mussolini,
If anything were needed to feed the devotion of MUSSOLINI'S followers, it would have been provided by his display of courage under the crack of an assassin's bullet. Popular conviction will be strengthened that the leader of Fascismo enjoys the special protection of the fates

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April 9, 1926, New York Times, Leaders of Opinion Put on the Side of Prohibition.
The veracity and courtesy of W.B. Wheeler's articles, as printed lately by you, should not obscure his achievement. What he did in this series was to line up four great figures of our American public opinion for the dry cause. Wheeler pasted the dry label on Roosevelt, Wilson, Bryan and Harding.
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April 11, 1926, New York Times, Nicholas Murray Butler Backs Veteran; Endorses Ex-Soldiers' Move to Modify the Volstead Act,

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April 11, 1926, New York Times, page 12, Fascism Will Stay, Says Mussolini; Tells Spanish Editor Regime Has a Long Series of Years Before It,
LONDON, April 10. -- A review of Fascist faith and future policy is contained in a special interview given by Premier Mussolini to Dr. Andre Revesz, foreign editor of the Madrid newspaper A.B.C., which is printed in the Sunday Times.

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April 11, 1926, New York Times, Mussolini Keeps at Work on Warship,

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April 11, 1926, New York Times, page 12, Tripoli All Aglow to Greet Mussolini; Colorful Welcome Planned for the Dictator , Police Guards Redoubled; Premier Is Considered Safer In Africa Than In Rome, but No Chances Are Being Taken,
TRIPOLI, April 10. -- As Premier Mussolini prepared to embark at Spenzia, determined to make his spectacular tour of his African colonies, despite his attempted assassination, the Colonial Government of Tripoli completed final arrangements for the strictest measures to safeguard the Premier's life while he is in Africa.

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April 12, 1926, The New York Sun, page 21, Tripoli Part of Roman Empire; Mussolini’s Visit Aims to Popularize African Mainland for Italian Emigrants,

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April 12, 1926, New York Times, page 23, Admiral Advised Butler's Charges; Robertson Declares He Told the General to Prosecute Colonel Williams,
Smedley D. Butler, commander of the San Diego Marine Base and former Philadelphia Director of Public Safety, in the charges of intoxication and conduct...
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April 13, 1926, The New York Sun, Swears Colonel Wasn't Drunk; Navy Surgeon Contradicts Testimony of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler,

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April 13, 1926, New York Times, Butler Emphatic in His Replies,
Smedley D. Butler, the Colonel's accuser, and etting him "tell it to the marines." The General told in no uncertain terms why he ordered Colonel Williams's arrest ...
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April 13, 1926, New York Times, page 1, Williams Was 'Full,' Gen. Butler Asserts; Marine Base Commander Declares Colonel Had to Be Assisted From Coronado Hotel; 'Too Evident to Overlook'; General Denies That Toothache Irritated Him Into Action -- Other Witnesses Uncertain;
SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 12. -- Charges that Colonel Alexander Williams of the Fourth Regiment, Marine Corps. endeavored to force drinks upon Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler at the famous Williams "cocktail party" were made by General Butler at the court-martial of Colonel Williams today.
Charges that Colonel Alexander Williams of the Fourth Regiment, Marine Corps. endeavored to force drinks upon Brig. Gen. Smedley D.Butler at the famous ..
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April 14, 1926, New York Times, page 3, Williams Sober, Officers Testify; Deny Colonel Staggered, One Asserting Drinks Were Only Fruit Juice; Try to Impeach Witness; Defense Declares Affidavits on Cocktail Party Were Made to Gen. Butler Under Duress,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 13. -- At tempted impeachment of a defense witness in the court-martial of Colonel Alexander Williams and endeavors to throw out affidavits of guests at the Williams cocktail party because they were obtained under duress were the features of the marine officer's trial today.
Judge Advocate Leo Hermle produced a written statement submitted to Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler some weeks ago by Captain Stokes, in which it was ...
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April 15, 1926, New York Times, page 2, Declare Williams Suffered From Drug; Medical Witnesses Testify That Prescription He Was Taking Produced Nausea,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 14. -- Acquittal of Colonel Alexander Williams, charged with intoxication and conduct unbecoming an officer, seemed possible today when the defense closed its case unexpectedly after physicians had testified that the commander of the Fourth Regiment, United States Marine Corps, was drugged and not intoxicated on March 6, as charged by Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commander of the local marine base.
Smedley D. Butler, commander of the local marine base. DEFENSE ASSAILS BUTLER Testimony Is Given That He Was Near a Break-Down and Has Faulty ...
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April 18, 1926, New York Times, Prosecution Closes In Williams Trial; Defence Makes Unsuccessful Attempt to Impeach the General's Testimony; May Transfer Butler; Military and Naval Men Foresee Personnel Changes if Accused Is Acquitted
...of Colonel Alexander Williams, Fourth Regiment, usmc, charged by General Smedley D. Butler with intoxication, and arguments will be presented on Monday.
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April 18, 1926, New York Times, By-Products,
The logical of the San Diego court-martial featuring General Smedley Butler's toothache and the defendant's indigestion would be for one of the Judges to ...
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April 20, 1926, New York Times, Williams Convicted by Court-Martial; Adjournment Without Announcing Acquittal Indicates a Verdict Against Marine Colonel; Butler Will 'Dry Up Base'; He Says There Will Be a 'Housecleaning and No More Cocktail Parties.'
The conviction of Colonel Alexander S. Williams on a charge of intoxication brought against him by Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler was indicated by the military ...
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April 20, 1926, The New York Sun, page 18, Williams Awaits Formal Verdict, To Know in 2 Weeks What Penalty Will Be,

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April 29, 1926, New York Times, Opinion, Young Vanderbilt Loses Family Aid for His Newspapers, Cornelius Jr. Says He Needs $300,000 to Continue His Three Tabloid Publications,
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. announced yesterday that he had reached an impasse in his journalistic career through the refusal of his father, Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, to finance further his son's string of three tabloid newspapers. Having advanced $1,080,000 on demand notes to his son in the last sixteen months, the elder Vanderbilt cried "Enough" on Friday last....
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April 24, 1926, New York Times, Transfer Dry Chief to Philadelphia; F. C. Baird Will Begin New Liquor War in City and Coal Regions; Political Move is Seen; Pepper Said to Have Seen Need of a Strict Enforcement Officer as Primary Approaches
It was said here that Philadelphia had become very wet since General Smedley D. Butler resigned as Director of Public Safety. In the last two weeks, it was ..
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April 30, 1926, New York Times, Young Vanderbilt Says Aid Is Offered; Malone Announces That One Proposition Is to Buy a Paper for $1,000,000, Four Other Proposals; Stockholders to Meet Soon to Consider Situation -- Several Small Tenders Made Personally.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., who announced Wednesday that the refusal of his father, General Cornelius Vanderbilt, to advance more money in addition to the $1,080,000 he has already advanced on demand notes had precipitated a crucial situation in the affairs of his string of three tabloid newspapers, said yesterday that five propositions had been made to him during the day.

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May 1, 1926, New York Times, Young Vanderbilt Works on Birthday; Marks 28th Anniversary by 12 Hours at Plans, Twelve Offers Reported; $1,000,000 Proffered for Los Angeles News Bona Fide, Says Malone -Will Suspend One Paper.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. observed his twenty-eighth birthday yesterday by working twelve full hours in his suite at the Mayfair House on the negotiations for $300,000 with which he hopes to rescue his newspaper enterprises. The sum needed had not been obtained last night, although seven new offers of aid were being considered.

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May 2, 1926, New York Times, Baird Appointment Answers Pinchot; New Dry Agent Will Try to Close Saloons, Breweries of Philadelphia and Coal Regions; May Affect Senatorship; Move by Mellon Is Also Called a Blow at Vare, a Wet, While Pepper Is a Dry,
Volstead act since General Smedley D. Butler resigned as Director of Public Safety, if the assignment of Mr. Baird does not have a political motive it is ...
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May 4, 1926, New York Times, Vanderbilt Asks Receiver on Coast; To Protect Los Angeles News From Bankruptcy -- Suspends in San Francisco; Miami Paper to Continue; Publisher Says Substantial Aid Was Stopped by Bank Reports of His Family's Opposition.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 3 (AP). Appointment of a receiver for The Illustrated Daily News, a tabloid newspaper, was asked In United States District Court today ...

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May 5, 1926, New York Times, Takes Over Newspaper; Receiver Assumes Charge of Vanderbilt's Los Angeles Property,

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May 20, 1926, New York Times, The Pennsylvania Warning,
...whose chief city was the scene of the sonorous energies of General SMEDLEY BUTLER, have nominated notorious Wets for Senator and Governor.
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May 22, 1926, New York Times, Col. Williams Reduced 4 Numbers in Grade; Wilbur Approves Sentence of Marine Officer,
Smedley D. Butler, Commandant of the Marine-. Base. Just before Colonel Williams vnt 'to the hotel he was host to General Butler and others at his home, and it ...
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May 23, 1926, New York Times, Transfers Williams To San Francisco,
Smedley Butler, commander of the Marine base at San Diego, has been transferred from that city to take charge of the Western Recruiting Division of the Marine ...
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May 30, 1926, New York Times, page 11, Wilbur Orders Trial of Capt. De Valin, Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Faces Charges of Intoxication,
WASHINGTON, May 29. -- A general court-martial has been ordered by Secretary Wilbur to try Captain Charles M. de Valin, Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, on charges of intoxication, conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline, misuse of a Government truck, misuse of liquor appropriated and turned over to the Medical Corps, and unauthorized possession of liquor.
Smedley Butler brought charges, -as cited as proof that Mr. Wilbur was not out on a prohibition crusade against the navy. It is , however that, in connection ..
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June 11, 1926, New York Times, Philadelphia Arrests Rise; Elliott Bests Butler by 7,000 in Five Months' Period,
Arrests in this city during the first five months of this year, under George V. ., Director of Public Safety, who succeeded Brig. Gen. Smedley D.Butler, increased ...
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June 12, 1926, New York Times, Vanderbilt Paper Backers Assessed,

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June 16, 1926, New York Times, Takes Vanderbilt Chateau for Cash; Frederick Brown Closes Deal With Mrs. Vanderbilt as He Starts for Europe,

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June 20, 1926, New York Times, page 2, Captain is Arrested When Marine Escapes; Three Others Jailed in San Diego When Alleged Bootlegger, Football Star, Gets Free,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 19. -- Sergeant Joseph Cercek, marine football star, who escaped from his guard a week ago, is still at large, but local police who attended the Board of Inquiry at the base today report that there are four other prisoners to take his place as a result of the escape.
Smedley D. Butler. GIFTS FOR ITALIAN HOUSE. Portraits of Mussolini and Butler to Hang at Columbia. ' The Italian house being erected at Columbia ..
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June 21, 1926, New York Times, page 2, Marines Arrested as Liquor Runners; Six at San Diego Base Held as Members of Alleged Smuggling Conspiracy; Case in Lejeune's Hands; Sergeant, in Connection With Whose Escape Four Others Were Jailed, Is Still at Large,
SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 20. -- Seizure of nine enlisted men and one commissioned officer in a new Marine Corps liquor sensation has led to the suspicion that the Marine base here was used as a centre for a gigantic wholesale liquor smuggling ring previous to the arrival of Brigadier General Smedley Butler, commanding the base.
...here was used as a centre for a gigantic wholesale liquor smuggling ring previous to the arrival of Brigadier General Smedley Butler, commanding the base.
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June 25, 1926, New York Times, No Offer for Vanderbilt "Tab.",

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July 3, 1926, New York Times, page 1, Wheeler Gives New Data; Hobson Got $171,249 in Eight Years--Bryan $11,000 in 1919; League Helped Draft Law And Picked Volstead as Author, but Counsel Denies Dictating to Him; Asks Secrecy on Gifts; Senator Reed Agrees to Hear Arguments, but Indicates They Will Be Futile. Wheeler Tells of the Dry League's Use of Millions,
WASHINGTON, July 2. -- Additional figures on the high cost of prohibition agitation in the separate States, filed with the Senate Campaign Fund Investigating Committee today, show that in twenty-three States there was collected by the local organizations $7,658,166, while the expenditures were $7,644,968.
...a telegram was sent to President Coolidge soon after he became President, the sea-vices of General Smedley Butler of the marines to clean up Philadelphia.
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July 11, 1926, New York Times, Buyers Still Seek Vanderbilt House; Syndicate Headed by Horowitz Said to Have Made Offer of $7,100,000 for Mansion,

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July 14, 1926, New York Times, General Vanderbilt to Visit Camp.; Camp Moore Seagirt,

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July 20, 1926, New York Times, Vanderbilt Jr. Back, Optimistic On Papers; Tells of Talking to Notables Abroad He See France Moving
Toward Revolution;
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., son of General Cornelius Vanderbilt, who went abroad two months ago to get material for a series of magazine stories which he hoped would recoup in part for his losses on his three newspapers published in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami, returned yesterday on the Leviathan of the United States Lines....

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July 24, 1926, New York Times, Vanderbilt Tabloid to Sell Stock,

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July 24, 1926, New York Times, Philadelphia Judge Urges A Mussolini for America
PHILADELPHIA, July 23 (AP). -- A dictator seems to be necessary to enforce the laws in the United States, Judge Edwin P. Lewis said in the Common Pleas Court today.
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July 24, 1926, New York Times, Vanderbilt Jr., Back, Optimistic on Papers; Tells of Talking to Notables Abroad -- He See France Moving Toward Revolution,

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July 24, 1926, New York Times, Equitable Building Sold by Labor Union; W.H. Vanderbilt, H.C. Cushing 3d and L.W. Baldwin Buy It From Locomotive Engineers; Valued at $40,000,000 Brotherhood Owned It a Year and Saw Chance to Make a Good Profit; EQUITABLE BUILDING SOLD BY LABOR MEN
William H. Vanderbilt, Harry C. Cushing 3d, who is related to the Vanderbilt family by marriage, and Leroy W. Baldwin, President of the Empire Trust Company, have acquired control of the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway, one of the largest office structures in the world and estimated to be worth $40,000,000.
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July 26, 1926, New York Times, Has Lost Two Millions Says Vanderbilt Jr., Reveals Cancellation of Family Notes Against His 'Newspapers, but Says He Pays for It,

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July 29, 1926, New York Times, Receiver for Vanderbilt Papers,

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August 1, 1926, New York Times, Sells Vanderbilt Paper; Federal Judge Lets Group Have Los Angeles News for $100,209,

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August 21, 1926, New York Times, page 14. Vanderbilts Give Large Dinner Dance; General and Wife Entertain 300 Guests at The Breakers in Newport,
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September 5, 1926, New York Times, Two Offers Made for Vanderbilt House; Louis Horowitz Heads Syndicate Which Plans Cooperative Office Building,

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September 26, 1926, New York Times Book Review, In the 1850s; A Manifest Destiny, by Arthur D. Howden Smith,

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October 2, 1926, New York Times, Col. Williams Dies as Car Dives Off San Francisco Pier; Mystery Envelops Drowning of Marine Officer Court-Martialed After Butler Charges,
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1. -- Following an evening spent at the Bohemian Club, Colonel Alexander S. Williams of the United States Marine Corps, who was court-martialed and disciplined on charges of intoxication brought in April by Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, plunged into San Francisco Bay in his automobile early this morning and was drowned.
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October 2, 1926, New York Times, Dead Officer's Career,
While on this station he also acted as assistant to the commandant of the constabulary and in May, 1918, succeeded Colonel Smedley Butler to the post of chief ...
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October 4, 1926, Buffalo Evening News, page B-1, Stand Alone Photos,

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October 12, 1926, New York Times, page 18, Young Vanderbilt Quits State Reserve,

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October 21, 1926, New York Times, Marine Mail Guard Begins Duty Today; 2,500 Men Will Be Stationed in 23 Cities, With Country Divided Into Two Zones; 265 Are to Come Here; Machine-Gun Protection of Trains, Trucks and Stations Is Under Feland and Butler
Smedley D. Butler will be Western commander with , arters in San Francisco. The dividing line will be the eastern boundary of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ..
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November 1, 1926, Oswego Palladium, page 1, U. S. Destroyer Sent to Honduras,
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1.—(AP) An American destroyer has been ordered from Bluefields, Nicaragua to Ceiba. Honduras, to save American lives and property. The destroyer was asked by American consul at Ceiba, who last week reported that inmates in a penitentiary there had conspired with revolutionists and seized the town, temporarily ousting government forces.
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November 1, 1926, The Auburn Citizen, page 1, Tabloid To Be Sold.
San Francisco, Nov. 1.—(AP)—The plant of the Daily Herald, one of the three tabloid newspapers established by Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr.. is to sold at auction here November 10. by the receiver.
The Daily Herald suspended publication se\eral months ago. About the same time Vanderbilt's tabloid in Miami, Fla . also suspended, while the Illustrated News in Los Angeles was placed under new management.

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November 1, 1926, Oswego Palladium, page 1, Mob Kills Youth Who Attempts to Shoot Mussolini; Benito, Italian Premier, Has Narrow Escape at Bologna Stadium. Rips Side of Coat; Bullet Enters Sleeve of Mayor of City at Side of Duce,
BOLOGNA, Italy, Nov. 1 (AP) - Benito Mussolini has escaped his sixth assassin in four years. The man, whose slogan is "live in danger," maintains undaunted his stronghold on the government and his blackshirted followers. His latest assailant was lynched on the spot.
The fascist premier had a close call from death late yesterday when, departing from the stadium here, a slender youth with blond hair pressed forward and fired point blank at him with an automatic pistol.
at the left of Mussolini, gained considerable notice for his Mussolini, as when previous at- untiring attacks on spirit mediums,' tacks ...
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November 1, 1926, Rome Daily Sentinel, page 1, Evangelist and Mother Direct Defense;

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November 28, 1926, New York Times, Marines "Tell the World" -- Firemen Aid Fire Film, Broadway Will Soon See Two Pictures in Which Experts Helped the Players"
This episode and many others in which from several California stations figured were supervised by General Smedley D. Butler, Commandant of the San Diego ...
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November 29, 1926, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, page 8,
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December 15, 1926, AP - The New York Sun, page 22, Smedley D. Butler Witness For Green; 'Cocktail Court-Martial' Man to Testify at Frisco,

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December 26, 1926, New York Times, Makes Its 10,000th Raid; Butler's Old Unit Interferes With Philadelphia "Christmas Cheer",
Police Unit 1, a survival of the days when Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler ruled over the city's "Finest," celebrated Christmas by conducting its 10000th raid. Before ...
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January 7, 1927, New York Times, Butler Condemns Dry Law; Marines Commander Now Declares It Is Class Legislation,
brie. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, spent months in fighting bootleggers as Director of Public Safety of Philadelphia, has changed his mind about the Volstead act.
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January 9, 1927, New York Times, By-Products,
...European situation immediately after Waterloo; and General Smedley Butler, who clarified his position as Director of Public Safety at Philadelphia last year.
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January 10, 1927, New York Times, Marines Mobilize Emergency Force; Tropical Kits Are Issued to Battalion of 23 Officers, 467 Men at San Diego Base,
Wartime activity hummed around the marine base today as organization of the expeditionary battalion ordered by Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler got under way ...
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January 10, 1927, New York Times, Famous Dog Mascot of Marines Is Dead; Jiggs Is a Victim of Too High Living,
He had been in the service five years, lie "enlisted" in Philadelphia, and had traveled 'more than 100000 miles by air, land and water. General Smedley D. Butler ...
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January 10, 1927, The Saratogian, page 1, Mexico Backing Nicaragua Revolt Says President
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January 11, 1927, New York Times, Gen. Butler Makes Peace with Drys; Upshaw in House Reads Telegram Quoting Marine as for Prohibition, Against Volstead Act,
General Smedley D. Butler was restored to good standing "in the eyes of the drys " today, when Representative Upshaw of Georgia, ardent prohibitionist, told the ...
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January 13, 1927, Attica [NY] News, News Review of Current Events; Senate Ready to Exclude Mr. Smith of Illinois in Navy Controversy, by Edward W. Pickard,

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February 4, 1927, New York Times, Transport Leaves San Diego.
Although General Smedley D. Butler, commander of the base, had bade good- bye to the regiment formally at a review yesterday afternoon, he went to the pier ...
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February 4, 1927, New York Times, Young Vanderbilt Living in Tiny Flat; Cooks His Own Meals Over 5th Av. Toy Shop Opposite Grandmother's Mansion; Calls Home Chateau Annex; Friends Visit Him as He Works as Writer to Pay Off His $3,000,000 Publishing Debts.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., until recently publisher of a chain of tabloid newspapers which got into financial difficulties, is living now in a two-room kitchenette and bath apartment, doing his own cooking and writing magazine articles, motion picture scenarios and a novel at top speed, in an effort to pay off his debts.
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February 6, 1927, New York Times, Our Changing Cities: Old Philadelphia; William Penn's Spirit Still Animates This Aspiring Community, Which Maintains Its Decorum In the Face of Great Industrial Activity -- Old Stock Not Engulfed by Influx of Aliens, by R. L. Duffus,
...Philadelphia the other hand, that protected vice exists abundantly, despite the earnest efforts of General Smedley D. Butler, the former Director of Public Safety ...
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February 6, 1927, New York Times, Censorship of Stage Again an Issue; Protests Against Vulgarity Carry a Threat to Theatrical Producers, by James C. Young,
Organized in 1923 by former Director of Public Safety, General Smedley D. Butler, the Board of Theatre Control includes six members. The Chairman is Thomas ...
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February 7, 1927, New York Times, Gen. Butler Objects to Tablet in His Honor If He 'Has to Keep Earning His Epitaph'",
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, former Director of Public Safety of Philadelphia, does not want a monument commemorating his services in law enforcement here ..
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February 8, 1927, New York Times, Gen. Butler Fails to Head off Tablet; His Philadelphia Intend to Erect Memorial to Him Despite His Protests,
General Smedley D. Butler is going to have a bronze tablet erected in his honor, in spite of all his protests. This was made certain today by several of his local ...
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February 20, 1927, New York Times, Gen. Feland Heads Fighting Marines; Is Ordered to Nicaragua to Take Command of American Forces Ashore; Latimer Supreme Chief; Sacasa's Agent Says Most of the Liberals' War Material Was Captured From Conservatives
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. -- Brig. Gen. Logan Feland of the Marine Corps was ordered today to assume command of all marine forces in Nicaragua The order was taken as emphasizing the importance which this country places in its military moves in Nicaragua, with heavy reinforcements destined for that country under the announced policy of affording all possible protection to American lives, property and interests during the revolution.
Gem Smedley D. Butler, commanding the marine base at San Diego. During the World War he was with the Second Division.
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February 27, 1927, New York Times, Gen. Butler to Head Marines in China; Officer Who Had Experience in the Boxer Rebellion Is Appointed to Command; Northern Chinese Clash; Fight Outside Shanghai After Dispute Over Arsenal--Peking-Canton Deal Rumored,
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who had experience in the Boxer rebellion, has been ordered to hasten to China to take command of the American marines ...
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February 27, 1927, New York Times, Our Caribbean Drama is Moving Onward; The United States Prepares to Extend Its Influence to the Mainland by Supervision Over Nicaragua Just Short of a Protectorate -- The Development of American Policy and the Attitude of Europe by S. T. Williamson,
Once more American marines were landed under command of a Major named Smedley D. Butler. The part played by the navy and Marine Corps is described in ...
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March 6, 1927, New York Times, Parade Was for Exercise; Washington Policy Is Not Altered by March in Shanghai,
Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps, accompanied by three staff officers, sailed from San Francisco today on the President Pierce for Shanghai, 'here he 'ill ...
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March 6, 1927, Courier Express, page 1, 5-Year Exile Abroad, Family Plan For Him, Declares Vanderbilt, Jr.,

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March 9, 1927, New York Times, Young Vanderbilt Gets New Lawyer; Breaks With Malone Over a Proposal From Parents and Engages Max D. Steuer, Asserts He Rejected Loan; Offered $150,000 on $1,000,000 Security to Meet Claims In Tabloid Newspaper Crash, He Says.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. has released Dudley Field Malone as his attorney in efforts to settle the financial difficulties brought about by the collapse of the Vanderbilt tabloid newspaper enterprises, and has engaged Max D. Steuer in his place, it was learned yesterday.
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March 13, 1927, New York Times, Butler of the Marines Goes to War; "Old Gimlet Eye," as His Men Call Him, Returns to China, Where He Won His Spurs in the Boxer Rebellion, by S. T. Williamson,
He is also known as the Fighting Quaker, General Duckboard, Battling Butler, the ...about what Smedley Butler is likely to do, but it I. a sure-thin gamble that if ...
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March 24, 1927, New York Times, Armored Cars to Hunt Quaker City Bandits; Police Also Will Use Machine Guns in War on Murderous Gangsters,
...severely criticized for failure to re-establish a police school for training recruits in target practice, an institution for whose abandonment General Smedley Butler ...
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March 26, 1927, New York Times, Nanking Story Told in Navy Dispatches; Graphic Record of Growing Peril Carried to Climax in Messages of Williams; Night Rescue Recounted; Relay of Latest Word From Hough Portrays Evacuation of Americans,
Smedley D. Butler, USMC, has arrived and reported today and has assumed command of the American Marines detachment on shore. Completing Nanking ...
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March 26, 1927, New York Times, Butler Takes Command of Marines in China; Says He Is Not Asking for Reinforcements,
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who arrived here today to take command of the American marines, told newspaper men that there was no immediate question of ...
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March 27, 1927, New York Times, Shanghai Attack Planned; Labor Army, Well Armed, Prepares Drive at the Foreign Settlement; Americans in Defense Line; Butler Posts Marines With Machine Guns -- Chang Kai-shek Reaches Shanghai; Nanking Casualties Told; One American, One Britisher and One Japanese Killed, 4 Americans and Others Wounded, by Frederick Moore,
Smedley Butler, who went through the Boxer rising, recalls the continued ...and American marines i under General Smedley D. Butler moved a company of ...
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March 27, 1927, New York Times, Noted 6th Marines Revived for China; Navy Reconstitutes World War Regiment With Infantry, Artillery and Planes; Now Being Concentrated; Men From Many Stations Hurry to New Unit -- Col. Snyder, a Veteran Fighter, to Command,
Smedley D. Butler when the regiment arrives at its destination, Shanghai, China. Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Sixth Regiment. Service Company ...
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March 28, 1927, New York Times, Will Rogers' s Comment on Course of Events in China,
To the Editor of The New York Times: SPOKANE, Wash., March 27. --Smedley Butler has arrived in China. The war may continue but the parties will stop. Yours ...
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March 28, 1927, New York Times, Protected by Foreign Guns,
Smedley D. Butler, in command of the American marines in China, and Major Gen. Duncan, the British Commander-in-Chief, today made a inspection of the ...
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March 28, 1927, New York Times, Article 1 -- No Title,
Gem Smedley Butler. i was going over I wanted to be with the outfit will take sixteen machine I guns, light firing and heavy browning guns, trench mortars ...
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March 30, 1927, New York Times, Trains of Marines Start for San Diego; Two Specials Leave Quantico and Eight More Will Go Today From Eastern Bases,
...ec Long, one of the officers attached to the newly organized brigade headquarters for the use of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler after the marines leach Shanghai.
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April 2, 1927, New York Times, Warships Get New Orders; Placed Now in All Treaty Ports, They Will Silence Attacks on Them; Active Role for Marines; General Butler Is Authorized to Put Them Into Front Line Defenses if Needed; Interior Situation Worse; Conditions at Chang-sha and Chung-king Are Critical and Hankow Outbreaks Feared, by Frederick Moore,
Gem Smedley Butler as soon he sees fit. If advisable, may proceed outside the international settlement s boundaries at Shanghai to protect American property or ...
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April 7, 1927, The Troy [NY] Times, page 1,

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April 16, 1927, New York Times, Former Head of Philadelphia Police Department Victim of Pneumonia,
Smedley D. Butler succeeded him with the coming of the Kendrick administration in 1925. Mr. Cortelyou's brothers, George !Bruce Cortelyou of New York, Secrei ..
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May 12, 1927, Buffalo Evening New, page B2, Stand Alone Photo,

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May 15, 1927, New York Times, Butler's Trip for Inspection,
Smedley D. Butler, in of the marines in China, to Tientsin and Pelting, mentioned in dispatches yesterday, undoubtedly being undertaken merely to inspect the ...
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May 19, 1927, New York Times, Gen. Butler Visits Peking; Marine Commander Goes Over the Scenes of His Boxer Service,
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Commander of the United States Marine forces in China, arrived here today from Shanghai and will be a guest of . Minister John ...
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May 27, 1927, New York Times, Peking 'Strong Man' Defies All Its Foes; Gen. Yang Yu-tin Real Atlas of Mukden Regime, Announces New Drive Against South; A Fiery, Fighting Manchu; He Is Likened to Gen. Butler as, With Blazing Eyes, He Declares North Will Not Yield; He Knows Task is Gigantic; Arrival of Woo, Who Controls Fierce Cavalry, Creates Belief That Chang "Means Business." by Walter Duranty
...xx-ho is chief of staff to Chang Tso-lin. has extraordinary points of resemblance with the American General of Marines, Smedley D.Butler. General Butler has a ...
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May 29, 1928, Buffalo Evening News, page 8, Representative Butler Dies,

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June 1, 1927, New York Times, Prepares to Shift Legation at Peking; Coolidge Would Also Call on Nationals to Go if Northern Capital Falls; Marines Held in Readiness; Orders to Move North Have Not Yet Been Issued, but All Is Left to Admiral William
Smedley Butler, commanding the marines, and John na MacMurray, the American at Peking. Officials do not expect the situation will be such as to require ...
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June 3, 1927, New York Times, Butler Is in Command,
Gen. Smedley D. Butler. In command of marines, also left for Tientsin aboard the cruiser Richmond, accompanied by his field staff. The Third Regiment of Marines, ...
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June 4, 1927, New York Times, British Warned to Withdraw,
Smedley D. Butler and 1900 marines and troops has produced a feeling of confidence among Americans here, Chen Protests to Japan. A dispatch from I: Iankow ...
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June 5, 1927, New York Times, Butler Starts for Northern Capital,
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in commander American marines in china, landed at Tangwu from Shanghai early this morning and entrained immediately for ...
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June 6, 1927, New York Times, Marines' Arrival Recalls Boxer Days,
Gen. Smedley Butler. commander of the marines, who had returned from a trip to Peking. where he conferred with John vh macmurray, the American Minister, ...
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June 9, 1927, New York Times, American Evacuation Unlikely,
Smedley D. Butler, of the American marines,has gone to Tientsin, where the marines today completed their trip from Shanghai. Dispatches from Tientsin said that ...
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June 10, 1927, New York Times, Shanghai Removes Trappings of War; Coolies Dismantle Foreign Colony Barricades, but Will Leave Some of $200,000 Defenses; Trade is Still Hard Hit; British and Japanese Suffer Most as People Are Urged Not to Buy Their Goods; Southern Drive Expected; Dr. Wu Says Nanking Regime Is Holding Parleys With Powers Looking to Settlement for Outrages
Smedley D. Butler, who is in command of the American marines in China, apparently intends to remain in the North. His automobile is being forwarded to him, ...
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June 18, 1927, New York Times, Chang Tso-Lin Made Dictator in Move to Beat Back South; Northerners Pool Armies and Will Stiffen Resistance Against Oncoming Chiang in Shantung; Peace Negotiations Fail; Victory for "Die-Hards" Is Seen and a Frankly Military Regime Is Expected; Foreigners Reassured; Dictator Began Colorful Career as Fierce Bandit Leader and Gained Control of Peking in 1924. by Frederick Moore,
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in command of the marines, is motoring almost daily on the available roads about Tientsin making a study of the terrain. I.
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June 24, 1927, New York Times, More Marines to Go North,
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, arriving here today from Peking on the USS Richmond, strongly intimated that further American marine forces will proceed north ...
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June 26, 1927, New York Times, page SM8, Our Far-Flung Marines Stand Guard; Nearly All of This Famous Corps Is On Foreign Service, by John W. Thomason,
A GROUP of young Marine officers, Captains and Majors, most of them with the Victory ribbon lonely on their chests, were talking not so long ago about how dull things were, professionally, for a Marine officer. They had, they agreed, come too late into the corps The high old days of expeditions every year to every place were passed for good.
has gone the Third brigade of Marines, commanded by General Smedley Butler, who received a medal of honor under the Tartar Wall in !.c0 and returns to ia ...
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June 26, 1927, New York Times, Feng Starts Task of Driving Out Reds; He Seeks Aid of Other General of Hankow to Evict That Regime, Shanghai Reports, by Henry F. Misselwitz,
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in command of the marines in China who returned here recently from the North on the cruiser Richmond expects to go back there ...
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June 30, 1927, New York Times, Foreign Area Issue Troubles Shanghai; Chinese Protest on Tax Covers New Move for Control of International Zone; Shipping Strike is Called; Japanese in China Ask Tokio to Act on Boycott -- More American Marines Go North, by Henry F. Misselwitz,
Smedley Butler with the Third Battalion of the Provisional Regiment of American Marines sailed for Tientsin this morning aboard the transport Henderson.
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July 17, 1927, New York Times, Perry's Voyage Mirrored Quaintly in Japan's Art; The Admiral and His Men, Storming Nippon's Isolation Many Years Ago, Made Strange Reflections;
THE MIKADO may or may not hold the mirror up to the Japanese as our early '80s of the nineteenth century saw them. The Japanese themselves are said to resent the picture. But the mirror which the Mikado's subjects held up to the first official visitors from America is not more flattering or less comic-operatic than anything the Gilbertian libretto can furnish.
"What Price Glory" celebrated their virtues and their vices, General Smedley Butler is a policy o/ in China with a force of Some thousands of them at present,
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August 20, 1927, New York Times, Kendrick Demands Police Graft Proof; Philadelphia Mayor Calls Upon Mackey to Retract or Take Allegations to Courts; He Welcomes Full Inquiry; Police Head Announces He Is Ready to Run Against Mackey for Mayor -- 70 Warrants for Ward Workers,
Political Philadelphia was thrown today into an uproar reminiscent of the days when Brig. Gen. Smedley D.Butler was Director of Public Safety. Mayor Kendrick ...
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September 22, 1927, New York Times, Admiral Bristol in Peking; Confers With General Smedley Butler on Informal Visit,
chief of the Asiatic squadron, arrived here last night and today had an informal conference with General Smedley Butler,who has just left the Rockefeller hospital ...
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October 8, 1927, New York Times, 3,800 of Our Troops in Tientsin.
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, senior American commander, is in a hospital in Peking at present suffering from an intestinal trouble which is not regarded as serious.
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November 11, 1927, New York Times, page 1, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. Asks Divorce in Reno; Wife Files Cross-Bill and He May Withdraw,
RENO, Nev., Nov. 10. -- Mrs. Rachel Vanderbilt, wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., will probably get the decree of divorce that young Vanderbilt came to Reno for some three months ago. When Mr. Vanderbilt's complaint was filed here today a cross-complaint charging desertion was filed one minute later and Mr. Vanderbilt's attorney, Sam Plant, said his client might offer no defense to the cross-bill of Mrs. Vanderbilt.
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November 13, 1927, New York Times, Marines Settle Down for Winter in Tientsin; "Devil Dogs" Stand Ready to Protect American Lives and Property in China's Civil War and to Keep Route to Peking Open -- Men Lack Entertainment, by Hallett Abend,
Smedley Butler, does not know how long they will remain in China; indeed, it is probable that President Coolidge himself does not know. But orders have come ...
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December 26, 1927, New York Times, Gen. Butler Led the United Fire Forces Which Saved Most of Oil Plant at Tien-Tsin,
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commander of the United States Marines here, today was credited with holding down destructiveness of the most spectacular fire ...
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January 1, 1928, New York Times, New Rule Outlined For Philadelphia; Mackey, Who Becomes Mayor Tomorrow, Says 'a Policeman' Will Head Public Safety; No One Law Singled Out; But Stage Censorship Will Stand-- Kendrick Says He Quits "Without a Regret
Smedley D. Butler will be the Sam Brown belts with which he equipped the Philadelphia police force. "The Department of Public Safety will be in charge of a ...
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January 3, 1928, New York Times, Mackey Challenges Philadelphia Crime; New Mayor on Taking Oath Also Pledges Economy--Admits Rule by "Practical Politicians";
Mayor Mackey declar ed that all police stations abandoned during the regime of General Smedley D. Butler as Director of Public' Safety and not reopened by ...
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January 24, 1928, New York Times, page 18, Vanderbilt Jr. Seeks to Give Up Heritage; Sends Lawyers to Urge Father's Assent to $1,250,000 Debt Settlement Plan,
RENO, Nev., Jan. 23.--Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. returned to Reno today from Los Angeles and announced that two attorneys were on their way to New York to attempt to make final settlement of all of his obligations....
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March 8, 1928, New York Times, Vanderbilt to Form Creditors' Trust Fund,
Cornelius Jr. Says All His Legacies Will Go Toward His Newspaper Losses. Cornelius Vanderbilt 3r. announced here today that all of his own ...of his inher to meet losses in connection with the failure of his tabloid newspapers.

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April 8, 1928, New York Times, Land Title Issue to Front in Haiti; Cadastral Bill, Designed to Quiet Claims, Soon Before Council of State; Development is Involved; Passage Probably Would Mean Expansion of American Interests, but Might Cause Peasant Revolt.
Among the legislation which is expected to come before the Haitian Council of State, whose regular session opened at Port-au-Prince on April 1, one measure is of outstanding importance in the view both of ...
Some responsible American officials do not blame this "war," which broke out in 1918, on "banditry." Their version is this: General Smedley Butler, in his haste to ...
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April 15, 1928, New York Times, Gen. Butler's Marines Win Friends in China, by Hallett Abend,
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in command of the marine forces in China. There can be no question that the wrong type of commander would have led to trouble.
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April 22, 1928, New York Times, Elliott's 40 Years with Old Marines; Veteran Rose From Second Lieutenant in "Leatherneck" Corps to Major General; by Col. H.C. Reisinger, U.S.M.C.
HERO OF MANY BATTLES; In Korea, Cuba and the Philippines He Helped Build Up the Marines' Tradition of Gallantry; His Early Days in the Corps; Led Expedition to Soul; At Guantanamo Bay. Engagement at Cuzco Well. Fighting Aguinaldo in Philippines. Advance Along a Causeway
Major Gen. W.C. Neville and Brig. Gen.Smedley D. Butler saw service as lieutenants in this engagement. General Elliott remained in the United States less than ...
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April 29, 1928, New York Times, F.L. Mayer Faces a Marked Change; Legation Counselor at Peking Will Find New Ottawa Post Entirely Different; Has Had An Active Career; Since His First Assignment by the State Department He Has Seen Much Turmoil. Sent to Disturbed Area. Worked With MacMurray. Helped in Earthquake Relief, by Hallett Abend,
Smedley D. Butler. Contrasted with this background o " turmoil and danger, of and uncertainty, Ottawa will doubtless seem to Mr. Mayer a haven of peace.
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May 14, 1928, New York Times, China Asks Coolidge Our Stand on 'War' by Japan in Tsinan; Nanking Sends Note Charging That Tokio Troops Invaded Shantung and Slew Official; Seems Like Evacuation. South Reports 7,000 Prisoners. Chang's Truce Offer Rejected. Peking Gunboat Shells Amoy; Mediation Bid Foreseen; Foreign Forces Prepare to Protect Nationals as Southerners Advance on Tientsin; Nanking Claims Victories; Chang Tso-lin, His Truce Offer Rejected, Gives Signs of Fleeing Peking Into Manchuria. Mediation Request Predicted. Nanking Reports Victories. Troops Arrive From Japan. by Henry F. Misselwitz,
Smedley D. Butler. The Americans have twenty airplanes, five tanks and a number of field pieces. The British garrison, I understand, totals at least 1000, while ...
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May 18, 1928, New York Times, Shansi's Vanguard 7 Miles From Peking Nationalists Say; News Agency Reports Capture of Paoting-fu, 80 Miles, and Chochow, 30, From Capital; But North Says Line Holds; American and British Troops Recalled From Training to Defend Tientsin Concession; Tokio Orders 3,000 There; Probably 1,000 Will Go to Peking-- Japan Is Said to Be Ready to Prevent War in Manchuria; Still Holding, Peking Reports. Withdrawal Order Reported Nanking Officials Meet; Chang Denounces Feng. American Senior at Peking. Japanese Have 6,900. Peking Defenses Improved. Japan Warns Both Sides. Japan Anxious Over Manchuria,
Smedley D. Butler; a strong aviation detachment of marines and 850 officers and men of the Fifteenth Infantry under Brig. Gen. Joseph C. Castner. In case of ...
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May 30, 1928, New York Times, Notables at Funeral of Thomas S.Butler; Congress Navy and Marine Corps Represented in Tribute to Representative,
WESTCHESTER, Pa., May 29.-- The body of Representative Thomas S. Butler, "Father of the House" and Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, was laid to rest this afternoon in Oakland Cemetery here in the presence of a Congressional ......The burial was preceded by a brief service at the Butler home. ...Smedley Butler.
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June 3, 1928, New York Times, Kellogg to Revise Our China Policy; Nationalist Triumph Involves a Fresh Study of the Whole Situation There; Hope For Chinese Unity; Demand for Recognition Is Expected --Little Fear for Americans in the North
Joseph C. Castner, commanding the Fifteenth Infantry patrol along the Tientsin peking Railroad, and Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commanding the Marines.
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June 30, 1928, New York Times, page 1, Vanderbilt to Give Legacies for Debts; Sister, to Aid Him Relinquishes Rights,
CHICAGO, June 29.--Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., whose tabloid newspaper venture at San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami, Fla., met with serious reverses, today held out hope for the eventual liquidation of the claims of the 3,000 to 5,000 original stockholders of Vanderbilt Newspapers,... ...

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July 4, 1928, New York Times, page 9,Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. Weds Again in Reno; His Bride, Mrs. Logan Had Just Won Divorce;
RENO, Nev., July 3.--Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. was married here this afternoon to Mrs, Mary Weir Logan, formerly of Chicago, who a half hour before the ceremony obtained a divorce from Waldo Hancock Logan, a member of the brokerage firm of Logan Bryan of Chicago...
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July 8, 1928, New York Times, Peking in Silence Awaits Invaders; Times Correspondent Paints a Vivid Word Picture of the Night of June 5; City of a Million Cowers; Streets Deserted and Hum of Life Stilled as the People Hide in Dread of Shansi Troops. A City of Silence. The Moon Rises. Waiting--In Uncertainty. "The Song of Happiness", by Hallett Abend,
General Smedley Butler, and his 3,400 marines at Tientsin. Peking also means the British and Japanese and French and Dutch and Italian...
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July 15, 1928, The New York Times Magazine, page SM4, Those Who Wear the Toga of Publicity; Fame Is Thrust Upon Some of Them, but Others Seek It And Become Not Space-Getters but Space-Grabbers, by Warren Nolon,
SPACE-GETTERS today are an army. Not all of them are seekers after fame. To many of them it comes as a by-product of their activity and is, perhaps, an annoyance. To others it comes only after careful coaxing and is their chief end and aim. He with the Duncan Sisters and borrows from tabloid cameramen and laughs loudly at .... Thomas A. Lawson, Mary Baker Eddy and Commodore Vanderbilt.

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July 22, 1928, New York Times, Nicaraguan Policy is Growth of Years; Current Activities There of the United States Part of Long Series of Events; Canal is a Leading Factor; Holding Route and Bringing of Order Believed to Be This Country's Main Object; The Canal a Factor; The Coolidge Statement; Our Position Not Pleasant; Diaz's Tenure Important; Other States Objected; Coalition Ticket Chosen; Sacasa Held Ineligible; Stimson Arranged Truce, by Harold N. Denny,
Marines under Major, now General,Smedley D. Butler participated actively in suppressing the revolt. The marines attacked the Meiia forces near Malaya and ...
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July 25, 1928, New York Times, Aviation Foundation Gets Capt. Land's Aid; Assistant Chief of Navy Aeronautics Is Permitted to Give a Year as Adviser,
Smedley D. Butler of the marines when he became Director of Public Safety of Philadelphia, or whether he will be detailed to the Guggenheim fund for a year, ...
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August 11, 1928, New York Evening Post, Section 3-page 9, Il Duce Discusses U.S. Embassy Site,
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September 2, 1928, New York Times, Declares Police Aid Bootleggers in Philadelphia; Prosecutor Says Stills Were Operated Close to Stations and Never Molested; Politicians in the Ring; Property Holdings of Leaders Are Sought as Graft Inquiry Widens; Chicago Crime Jams Court; Judges Are Accused of Short-Time Work as 1,900 Indictments Add to Overcrowded Docket. Will Check Up Police Property. Has Affidavits on Liquor Plants; More Amazing Disclosures Promised. Graft Charge Hits Butler's Raiders. Witness Threatened with Death,
Smedley D. Butler, whom former Mayor W. Kendrick;
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September 9, 1928, New York Times, Philadelphia Bares a Bootleg Kingdom; With Its Czar, Its Judges, Its Police and Its Avengers, It Thrives on the Millions of Dollars Poured Out for Illicit Liquor and Has Spread Its Corruption Throughout the Municipal Organization Charges of the Mayor. Well-Financed Bootlegging, by R. L. Duffus,
Smedley D. Butler of the United States Marine Corps came to Philadelphia on leave of absence to tal;e the position of Director of Public Safety and clean up the ..
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September 10, 1928, New York Times, 'Black Book' Lists Philadelphia 'Ring'; Volume Seized in Raid Names Bootleggers, Criminals and Police Grafters; Criminal Records Missing; Monaghan Assails Police on 'Disappearance' of Photographs Wanted in Jury Inquiry; Much-Wanted Photograph Gone; Address Book Is Very Complete; Liquor Peddlers Driven Into Open. Matters Awaiting Jury's Attention. Butler Had Dropped Carlin
Smedley D. Butler as Director of Public Safety, some of the central city saloon keepers have closed their doers and resorted to peddling liquor from the sidewalks ...
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September 14, 1928, New York Times, Philadelphia 'Ring' Generous to Police; Hoff Gave Lavish Christmas Presents, Taking Receipts, Prosecutor Says; Jury Hears Bureau Chief's; Some Officers Are Said to Have Admitted Getting Gifts--Mayor Plans to 'Weed Out' Force,
Smedley P. Butler when he was Philadelphia's Director of Safety and disbanded with the incoming of Mayor Harry A. Mackey's administration.
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September 15, 1928, Buffalo Courier Express, page 3, Former Police Head Quizzed by Prosecutor,

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September 19, 1928, New York Times, Vanderbilts are Reunited; Cornelius Jr. Says Parents Won't Oppose Ambition to Be Writer,
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. announced here yesterday that there had been a ...who are said to have lost more than $3,000,000 in his tabloid newspaper ventures.

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September 25, 1928, New York Times, Vare Man Is Sought in Liquor Graft; Alleged Three-Cornered System Links Ward Leader and Police Officer to Saloon Extortion; $12,195 Given in 6 Months; Lawyer Says He Thought Funds Taken From Barkeepers Were for "Campaign Purposes"; Saloon-Keepers Reveal Collections. Ehrenreich a Willing Witness. Patterson Under Suspicion Before
...alleged graft activities on the part of policemen during a brewery investigation started by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler as Director of Public Safety.
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October 6, 1928, New York Times, Indicts Vare Leader and Police Captain; Philadelphia Grand Jury Names Patterson and Schoenleber in Twelve Graft Charges; Other Arrests Indicated; Prosecutor Says the First Will Be Charles Beckman, Former Captain of Detectives; 4,800 Police Transferred; Biggest Shake-Up in History of the City Takes Place at Midnight Under Mayor's Orders. Reorganize Police Bureau. Police Captains Refuse to Talk
Smedley D. Butler in his efforts to divorce police and politics were restored and the assertion was made by Philadelphia, both Republican and Democratic.
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October 7, 1928, New York Times, Mackey Disclaims First Police Move; Puts Responsibility for Abandonment of Butler Plan on Department Heads; Calls Philadelphia Clean; It Has Been So Since 10,424 Arrests in September Drive, the Mayor Declares; Seek Extradition of Poley; Puts Onus on Police Heads. Return to District Lines
Smedley D. Butler, and his successor, George W. Elliott. Finally, Mayor Mackey " right at this very moment is the cleanest big city in the United States," and said it ...
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October 8, 1928, New York Times, More Police Heads in Philadelphia Net; Two Captains With Big Bank Accounts Will Be Indicted This Week, Prosecutor Says; Unit No. 1 Under Scrutiny; General Butler's Special Raiding Squad Is in Line for Grand Jury's Graft Investigation
Smedley D. Butler as a special liquor raiding squad during his regime as Director of Public Safety, and was continued by his successor, George Welicott.
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October 9, 1928, New York Times, 2 In Philadelphia Admit Graft Guilt; Captain Knoell and Detective Sells Confess to Extortion at First' "Racket" Trial; Grand Jury Attacks Pair; Asks Suspension of Two Commanders and Scores System Putting Police Under Political Influence
Smedley D. Butler. came here to.head the Public Safety and "take the police out of politics." Only last Saturday, Mayor Mackey issued a statement disclaiming ..
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October 16, 1928, New York Times, Philadelphia Judge Scores Police Head; He Says H. C. Davis Should Resign as Policeman; Swears Director Failed to Act on Graft; Predecessor Also Named; Patrolman Says Dry Reformers Knew of Evidence Against Butler Unit and Took No Action
Smedley D. Butler, which was continued until early this year, but also accused two Philadelphia reformers of similar apathy. Tabbot named William R. Nicholson...
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October 16, 1928, The Saratogian, page 1, More Policemen In Graft Haul In Philadelphia,

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October 17, 1928, New York Times, 10 More Policemen in Philadelphia Net; Officers, Along with Confessed Beer Runner and Brother, Held in $10,000 Bail Each; TRIAL OF VARE AIDE OPENS; Jury in Patterson Case Is Locked Up for Night--Director Davis Refuses to Resign; Hendrick Tells His Story; Davis Confers With Mayor. Patterson Goes on Trial,
Smedley D. Butler a hen he was Director of Public Safety. "Al" and Ferguson Hendrie were held in $10000 bail each. AS A third development before Judge ...
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October 21, 1928, New York Times, Philadelphia Jury Convicts Vare Aide; Patterson and Police Captain Are Found Guilty of Liquor Graft Charges; Sentences Await Appeal; Beckman, Detective Captain Who Amassed Wealth, Is Ousted From Police Department; High Point in "Rum Ring" Inquiry; Judge Hits at Police Districting; Beckman Ousted by Board.
Smedley D. Butler in the early part of the Kendrick Administration were restored to conform approximately with the ward lines. Thus, it has been charged, the ...
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October 21, 1928, New York Times, "Umbrella of Blessings" Conferred on Gen. Butler; Commander of United States Marines Is First Foreigner to Receive This Chinese Honor
TIENTSIN. THE ceremonial "Umbrella of Ten Thousand Blessings," accompanied by two "honorary ban ners," has been bestowed upon Brig. Gen. Smedley D.
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October 31, 1928, New York Times, Mackey Suspends 21 Police Heads; On Grand Jury Report He Plans Philadelphia Shake-Up to Eliminate "Politics"; GAMBLING GRAFT INDICATED; Inquiry Takes Turn--"Sailor" Friedman, Ex-Pugilist, Arrested Here as Fugitive; Will Follow Butler's Principle. Jury Looks Into Gambling. Informed of Friedman's Arrest."
Smedley D. Butler during his regime as Public Safety Director. This alignment, which was said to have given practically every u-atd leader a district commander ...
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November 4, 1928, New York Times, Sap at Vare Seen in Grand Jury ACT; Inspector Carlin's Suspension Removes Police Protege of Philadelphia Leader, Involved in Graft Inquiry; Report Declares Ousted Official Deposited $38,844 in Banks Since Jan. 1. "The Only Honest Cop." Was Headed for Higher Ground. Republican Disintegration, by Lawrence Davies,
Smedley D. Butler of the marines was doing what he could to remove the stigma from the Quaker City. General Butler has related that after his arrival here to ...
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November 10, 1928, New York Times, Marines in China to Be Reduced Soon; Kelogg and Wilbur Consider How Many of Force of 3,063 to Order Home; Peace Encourages Move; New Tientsin Road Will Be Named After America Today in Honor of Brigade's Help in Building It,
Gen: Smedley D. Butler, commander of the Third Brigade of marines in China, informed the Navy Department today that on the 153d anniversary of Marine ...
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December 2, 1928, New York Times, New Head of Police Finds City Hopeful; Philadelphia Expects Major Schofield to Make Headway Against Graft; MAYOR ALLOWS FREE HAND; Mackey Believed to Be Getting Rid of Avowed Responsibility for Department; Believe Mayor Is Through. Mayor Adheres to Vare. May Adopt Butler Plan, by Lawrence Davies,
Smedley D. Butler when he got a leave of absence from the marines and came here in 1924 as Public Safety Director for Kendrick. At that time the nation ...
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December 4, 1928, New York Times, Hunts Auto Graft in Philadelphia; Monaghan Charges Police Plot to Profit in Auction of Seized Machines; Tells of Car Priced at $1; Prosecutor's Report Is That It Was Resold for $250--Grand Jury Hears Eight Detectives; Several Said to Have Confessed. More Pay Asked for Police,
...to "get acquainted with the job." as he put it. Such visits, it was recalled, were made frequently by Brig. Gen.Smedley D. Butler as Director of Public Safety.
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December 23, 1928, New York Times, Article 10 -- No Title
GEN. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, With a Group of Chinese, at the End of Repair Work on the Peking-Tientsin Motor Road, Which Was Finished With the Help of the ...
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December 23, 1928, New York Times, More Marines to Leave; Washington Authorizes Withdrawal of 1,000 for Late January,
Gen. Smedley Butler, who was sent over to command the United States during the disturbance last year, wll: return with the next month or will remain until all art...
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December 24, 1928, AP - New York Times, 3,000,000 Goes To C. Vanderbilt Jr.; He Makes Known Plan to Use Inheritance, Now Available, to Pay Tabloid Losses; TELLS OF RECONCILIATION; Father Denies $1,000,000 Gift --Son Speeding West to Spend Christmas With Bride; To Reimburse Losers. Promises Further Redress. Father Denies Gift.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 23.--Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. changed trains here late today on his dash across the continent to be with his bride at Reno for Christmas. He took time to explain that he was back in the good graces of his family to the extent of $3,000,000 after four years of estrangement.
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January 6, 1929 - Special to The New York Times, Butler to Quit China with His Officers; General to Return Home on Liner While Naval Transport Brings 1,000 Marines,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who has been in command of the American marines in China for nearly two year, was ordered today to ...
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February 7, 1929, New York Times, BUTLER BACK FROM CHINA.; Marine Commander, in San Francisco, Tells of Amity for US,
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 6.- After nearly two years in China without firing a shot, Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commander of the Marine Corps in China, ...
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February 27, 1929, New York Times, Dry Prize Plans in Book.; W. C. Durant Publishes Symposium of 100 Submitted in Contest,
...winner of the High School prize, former Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, William J. Flynn. .lames E. Davis, and General Smedley D. Butler.
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March 31, 1929, New York Times, Quaker City Police Still in Ferment; Safety Head and Civil Service Board at Odds Over Plan to Clean Up Force; by Lawrence Davies,
Old Cry of Politics Raised; Director Accused of Seeking Power to Build Up Machine--Matter Goes to Legislature; At Odds With Commission. Men Advised to Sue Director. Many Prospective Vacancies,
Gen, Smedley D. Butler had tried something during his regime as director here, but finally had given it up. "Since I have been rendered powerless to fire the men, ...
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April 5, 1929 - Special to The New York Times, New Post for Gen. Butler; Assigned to Command Marines East Coast Base at Quantico,
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler was today ordered by the Marine Corps to take command of the East Coast expeditionary base at Quantico, ...
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July 9, 1929, The New York Times, Kilbourne Sent To Manila; Brig. General Jackson Will Take His Place at Madison Barracks,
Le Jeune, former commandant of the corps, is to retire from active service in the Fall. It is considered probable that Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler and Brig. Gen.
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July 14, 1929, New York Times, Butler Is Promoted to Major General; Marine Officer Who Tried to Dry Up Philadelphia Is Advanced by Hoover; COL. MYERS GETS HIS POST Both Had Heroic Roles in Chinese Boxer Revolt, Which Hoover Saw--Lejeune Retires."
Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, famous as a veteran of fifteen campaigns and expeditions and for his work as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia, holder of ...
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July 15, 1929, New York Times, Will Rogers Points Out One War Butler Missed,
To the Editor of_the York Times SANTA MONICA, Cal., July 14. =That was nice . about 'eaa pio= Smedley--Butler. He has served is Cuba; Tiance; Philadelphia ...
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September 4, 1929, New York Times, Want General Butler as Keystone Governor; Legion Leaders Start Movement to Promote Marine Officer's Candidacy,
A movement to elect Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler as the next Governor of Pennsylvania has been started among members of the American Legion, and the first ...
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September 19, 1929, New York Times, Gen. Butler Boycotts Town of Quantico; Forbids Marines to Patronize the Place While Bootleggers Flourish There,
Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commander of the Quantico Marine Base, has put up to the citizens and officials of this new small town the question of getting rid ...
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September 20, 1929, New York Times, Butler to Lead Men Into 'Dried' Quantico; General Promises Parade to Mayor, but Reminds Marines That Dry Law Is in Constitution,
Assured that he will have his way about prohibition enforcement in this little marine post town, Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler is making plans to get out his band ...
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September 25, 1929, New York Times, Brookhart Recalls Liquor at a Dinner to Honor Senators; Accuses Smoot in Senate Session of Being a Guest at Affair; Held in Capital Hotel; Smoot Denies He Drank; If Any Intoxicants Were Served He Did Not See Them, He Retorts; Howell Answers Hoover; Gives Evidence of Violations--Would Draft Butler of Marines to Make Washington Dry,
Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps here to enforce the law, which he said the District police were unable or unwilling to do. But the sensational feature of the ...
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September 29, 1929, New York Times, Gives Outing to 200 at Mount Air Retreat; M.C. Kennedy, Vice President of Pennsylvania, Has Many Notable Guests,
Secretary Melton, Secretary Davis of the Labor Department, Gen. Talker H. Bliss. Isador Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commandant of the Marine Corps at Quantico, ...
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October 6, 1929, New York Times, Gen. Butler to Fly Here; To Lecture on China in Brooklyn Tuesday--Reception on the Illinois,
Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps will fly to New York Tuesday from Quantico, Va.. to lecture before the Brooklyn of Arts and Sciences at the Brooklyn ...
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October 6, 1929, New York Times, Dry Law Class Legislation, Says Gen. Butler; Tells Hoover Commission Methods Are Wrong,
Major Gen, Smedley D. Butler, commandant of the United State Marine Corps base at Quantico, has told President Hoover's National Commission on Law ...
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October 9, 1929, New York Times, Gen. Butler Pictures Turmoil in China; Predicts Change Soon in the Nationalist Government--He Flies Here to Lecture,
public in China today," Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the United States Marine Corps said last night in a lecture at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He that i he had ...
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November 5, 1929, The Saratogian, page 1, 'Booze Dinner' in Washington Described by Sen. Brookhart; demands Resignation of Mellon,

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November 6, 1929, New York Times, "Brookhart Tells Story in Senate of Liquor Party; Declares 'Wall Street' Hosts Provided Flasks for Him and Colleagues at 1926 Dinner; Says He Saw Lommis 'Pour'; Absolves Smoot, Gooding and Self of Drinking--Bids Others Speak for Themselves; Demands Mellon Resign; Senator Blames Secretary for "Failures of Enforcement" and Urges Applying Law to "Big" Men.
"I realize that has been the idea that has caused all the failure there has been in the enforcement of ." Smedley Butler failed in Philadelphia only when he sought ...
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November 10, 1929, New York Times, Corporation Is Chartered to Furnish Funds for Doctors' and Dentists',
A corporation to supply funds to individuals suddenly confronted with the necessity for a major surgical operation or extensive dental work
...who said yesterday that te had been associated with Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. in the publication of The Los Angeles Illustrated News. an unsuccessful tabloid ...
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November 12, 1929, New York Times, Assails Opposition to Soldiers in Office; General Butler Calls Report He Will Run for Governor of Pennsylvania Propaganda,
Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps, speaking at the dedication of...
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December 7, 1929, New York Times, Calls for Marine Inquiry; Sinclair Lewis Urges Borah to Act on Nicaragua Election,
Borah calling for an investigation of assertions made here last night by General Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps that marines were used to override the ...
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December 7, 1929, New York Times, Rushing Marines to Haiti, Hoover to Tell Congress of Troubles There Today; Situation Held Serious; Island Quiet With Martial Law--All Activities Are Curbed at Night; Stimson Is In Close Touch; President's Message, Ready, Is Delayed by Adjournment of Both Houses; Nature of Plans Secret; He Had Sought Commission to Study Situation in West Indian Republic; Text of Message Speculated On. Ruling Class Resents Marines; Marines For Haiti; Message Due Today; Stimson Reviews Situation. In Constant Touch With Russell; Quiet Restored in Haiti; 500 Marines to Sail Today; Will Leave Norfolk for "Duty Beyond the Seas"; Probably Haiti. 277 Marines Leave Quantico,
Smedley D. Butler, commander of the Quantico marine base, declined to give the destination of the marines other than that they had been ordered by the Navy ...
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December 7, 1929, Buffalo Courier-Express, page 2, Author Asks for Senate Quiz of Butler's Speech; Sinclair Lewis says general confirmed charges against marines in Haiti, Nicaragua,

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December 7, 1929, Buffalo Courier-Express, page 1, missing, U.S. Rushing More Marine to Haiti as Trouble Grows,
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December 9, 1929, New York Times, Fisher to Appoint Grundy as Senator; Acceptance by Pennsylvania Tariff Advocate Is Likely to Start Hard Primary Battle; Vare Gets Pledges of Aid; Philadelphia Leaders Back Him --Three-Cornered Fight Looms, With Pinchot in Field; Seek to Avoid Another 1926. Believes Grundy Will Accept; Vare Followers Pledge Him Support. Asks Group to State Stand,
Should ex-Governor Pinchot be a candidate for the Senate, he may have as his running mate, Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler. Secretary of Labor Davis also is in ...
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December 15, 1929, New York Times, Asks Gen. Butler to Explain Speech; Secretary Adams Calls for a Full Report on His References to Nicaraguan Policy; Navy Officials Silent; Stimson Also Refuses Comment on the General's Reputed Remarks at Pittsburgh Dec. 5,
Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler has been called upon by the Navy Department for an official report of a speech he delivered on Dec. 5 in Pittsburgh. Fragmentary ...
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December 16, 1929, New York Times, Calls Dry Law State Task; Brookhart Declares Failure to Act Nullifies the Constitution,
"I am convinced," he said, "that General Smedley D. Butler, as head of prohibition enforcement, with the proper support, would enforce the law to the fullest extent ..
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December 16, 1929, New York Times, Will Rogers Sees Danger Now In Expressing an Opinion,
Then General Smedley Butler started doing a little reminiscing out loud about some of the old time antics of the marines in Nicaragua, and now he is to face a ...
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December 18, 1929 - Special to The New York Times, May End Butler Incident; Secretary Adams Withholds Reply of Marines' Commander;
Smedley D. Butler of the Corps in response to an official demand for a report on the latter's speech at Pittsburgh, Dec. 6, but does not intend to make it public.
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December 22, 1929, New York Times, Accepts Butler's Version; Secretary Adams Thinks General's Speech Was Misquoted,
Dec. 21 (AP).- Major Gen. Smedley D.Butler has so recent Pittsburgh speech concerning marines on foreign soil during elections that Secretary Adams is ..
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December 30, 1929, New York Times, Says It Is Our Duty to Protect Latins; General Butler Insists They Must Be Kept From Murdering One Another,
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 29 (AP).- Major Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps, in a speech last night before the post of the American Legion at Middletown, ...
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January 9, 1930, New York Times, Dinner of War Workers; Overseas Service League to Have Reunion on Monday Evening;
Among those on the guest list are Mrs.Franklin Roosevelt; General and Mrs: Charles Summerall, General and Mrs. Smedley Butler, General Mrs. Peter Traub , ...
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January 12, 1930, New York Times, Mrs. I. Seymour Crane; New Yorker, Formerly of Montclair Dies on a World Trip;
Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps, died from pneumonia last night at her home in Overbrook. She was 59 years old. Miss Peters studied in private schools ... . Miss Edith M. Peters,
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February 14, 1930, New York Times, Gen. Butler Kin Killed; Brother and a Child Die in Texas Motor Car Crash,
21 WELLS, Texas, Feb. 13 (AP).-Horace Butler, 37 years old, of Eastland, Texas, brother of Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler, and Carrie Lee May, 4 years old, were ...
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February 15, 1930, New York Times, Texas Auto Crash Toll 4; Two More Die After Wreck Fatal to General Butler's Brother,
MINERAL, Texas, Feb. 14 (AP).-Four persons, including a brother of Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps, were dead today as the result of an ...
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February 23, 1930, New York Times, Dry Raid on Hotel Stirs Quaker City; Major Schofield, Public Safety Director, Is Hotly Assailed and as Warmly Commended, by Lawrence Davies,
He Agrees to Compromise; Promises to Warn in Future Any Hostelry Where Prohibition Law Violation Is Suspected,
Some four years after Magistrate Edward P. Carney made his famous raid upon a central city hotel and General Smedley D. Butler parted company with his ..
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March 2, 1930, The New York Times Magazine, Night Life: New York's Vast Monopoly; Gayety That Is Dispensed on a Huge Scale Stirs the Envy Of Cities That Have No Mass Production Methods, by H. I. Brock,
...which, it appeared, was suffering from an extra dose of dullness as a hangover from the regime of General Smedley D. Butler and scandals thereupon ensuing ...
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April 27, 1930, New York Times, Sousa March Hails Allies of Tientsin; Hoover and Other Veterans of 1900 Siege Hear Piece Dedicated to Royal Welch Fusiliers; OLD LEADER SWINGS BATON Marine Band at Gridiron Dinner Plays Music Perpetuating Ties of British With Our Marines. Veterans See Colors Borne In.
Smedley Butler, Brig. Gen. George Richards and Brig. Gen. B.H. Fuller, all then junior officers of the Marine Corps. Other Marine officers present who saw service ..
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May 13, 1930, New York Times, Sousa Leads Old Band on White House Steps; Hoover and British Envoy Hear Marine Musicians Play Former Leader's New March. Doumergue Sails for Home,
Smedley Butler, Brig. Gen. George Richards and other Marine Corps officers, Charles S. Groves;. president op the Gridiron Club, and Robert Barry, the club s ...
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June 3, 1930, New York Times, Marriage Announcement 2 -- No Title
The bridesmaids, who wore like frocks of blue and carried yellow roses, were Miss Ethel Butler, daughter of General and Mrs. Smedley D. Butler, Miss Virginia ...
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June 21, 1930, New York Times, Hoover Presents Special Medal to Byrd as Climax of the Capital's Welcome; Crowds Cheer Him; Congress Pays Honor; Hoover Speaks for Nation, Says Explorer Has Given Lifetime to Spirit of His Countrymen. Admiral Tells Discoveries; Emphasizes That His Expedition Established the Value of Radio in Exploration. RECEIVED AT WHITE HOUSE Throngs Greet Leader and Companions--He Pays Tribute to Bennett, Peary and Wilkes. Emphasizes "Human" Values. Byrd Tells of Discoveries. Great Company of Scientists and Public Men Sees Hoover Honor Byrd Text of President's Address. Store of Knowledge Added To. Admiral Byrd's Speech. Describes Antarctica. Motive for the Expedition. Contribution to the Sciences. Tells of Flight to Pole. Lessons From Polar Flight. Dogs Still Indispensable. Geological Discoveries. Report to Cover All Studies. Dr. Grosvenor's Address. Recalls Hoover's Travels. Official Movies Shown. List of Guests."
Charles Henry Butler. General Smedley Butler and Mrs. Butler. Former Governor Harry Flood Byrd and Mrs. Byrd. Mrs. Eleanor Bolting Byrd. Mrs. Richard Evelyn ...
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June 21, 1930, New York Times, Geographers Hail Fruits of Byrd's Discoveries and Explorations in Antarctica; Byrd at Luncheon Gives Navy Credit; Admiral, as Guest of Geographic Society Trustees, Lauds Body for Its Help. CURTIS WELCOMES HIM Vice President Says He Hopes the Explorer Will Stay at Home for a While. Praises Navy for Aid. Thanks Sun Compass Inventor."
Smedley D. Butler, U9, Dr. Jac Chandler. Rear Admiral Joseph Johnaton Cheatham,. usn Emanuel Cohen. Dr. Frederick Y. Coville. Surgeon General Hugh 8
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July 10, 1930, New York Times, Full Military Honors for General Neville; Cannon to Salute as Marines Escort Cortege to Arlington Cemetery Tomorrow,
Smedley D. Butler, Brig. Gens. Een H. Fuller, Hugh Matthews and Rufus H. Lane and Colonel Rush H. Wallace of the Marine Corps; Major Gen. Preston M.
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July 9, 1930, Buffalo Courier Express, page 1, Gen. Neville, Marine Corps Chief, Is Dead;
July 9, 1930, Buffalo Courier Express, page 1, Swanson Urges Ratification of Naval Pact;
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July 13, 1930, New York Times, Three Services Join in Honoring Neville; Army and Navy Aid in According Full Military Rites at Burial of Marine Commandant,
Smedley D. Butler, Brig. Gens. Ben H. Fuller, Rufus H. Lane and Hugh Matthews, and Colonel Rush H. Wallace, all of the Marine Corps; Major Gen. Preston ...
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July 13, 1930 - Special to The New York Times, Four Are Mentioned to Head Marine Corps; Hoover Is Expected Soon to Name Commandant to Succeed Major General Neville,
Smedley D. Butler and Logat7 Felanrl and brig. . Ben H. Fuller anti John 13.. The test of officer, General Butler, is the... He will be 49 years old this; month. All four...
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August 1, 1930, New York Times, General Butler Sends 700 Marines on Leave As Drought Depletes Quantico Water Supply,
WASHINGTON, July 31.-Seven hundred marines left Quantico, Va., today on special liberty granted them by the commanding officer, Major Gen. Smedley D.
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August 6, 1930, New York Times, MacArthur Named Chief of Army Staff; New Army and Marine Corps Heads, Fuller to Lead Marines; Commandant Is Promoted by the President Over Smedley Butler and Others,
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August 27, 1930, New York Times, Lon Chaney Dies After Brave Fight; On Road to Recovery, Screen Actor Is Stricken by Hemorrhage of the Throat.WAS A MASTER OF MAKE-UP Son of Deaf and Dumb Parents, He Began Career as Property Boy--Excelled in Vivid Personations. Acted as Pike's Peak Guide. Made Stage Debut at 17. Appeared in Slap-Stick Comedy. Wore Straitjacket as "Hunchback." New Disguise for Each Film,
...Irving G. Thalberg, General Smedley D. Butler, Tod Browning, Harry Carey, Lionel Barrymore, Ramon Novarro, William Haines, Laurence Tibbett, Fred Niblo, ..
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September 3, 1930, New York Times, Hoover Sees March of 15,000 Veterans; Greeted by Baltimore Crowds as He Takes Salute of Men of Foreign Wars; Chats Long with Ritchie; Sits With His Critic in Stand --Group Shouts 'Hurrah for Ritchie, We're Wet'; Mayor Late for Welcome, Misses Meeting His Guest at City Limit--Hoover Makes No Address--Returns in Rain; Hoovers' Rescuer Is Present; Ritchie and Hoover Chat. Hoover Honors Crippled Veteran. Anti-Red Demonstrations Urged,
Smedley D. Butler, commandant of the Quantico Va., marine station and one of the officers who commanded a detachment that rescued lit, and Mrs. Hoover in ...
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September 10, 1930, New York Times, Wives of Cabinet Members Join Mrs. Doran In Book of Recipes of 'Prohibition Punches',
General Smedley D. Butler, Commandant of the Quantico Marine Base, was one of the few male contributors to the recipe book. Tea was the base for his drink.
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September 14, 1930, New York Times, Some Punch Recipes for the Law-Abiding; Mrs. Doran's New Book Provides a List of Drinks Concocted by Noted Leaders in the Ranks of Drys, by C.W.B. Hurd,
Smedley D. Butler, hardy marine campaigner, is a mixture of fruit juices designed to tease the palate when combined with iced tea . . . Besides the prominence of ...
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October 24, 1930, The New York Sun, page 27, American Woman to Entertain Duce; Mussolini to Stay at Her Home in Assisi,
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October 27, 1930, The Troy [NY] Times, page 1, Mussolini In Militant Oratory; Italy’s Premier Calls for a Hardening of Fascist Policies Against Goes in Italy and Beyond Borders,

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November 20, 1930 - Special to The New York Times, Gen. Butler Not to Lecture on Vice,
Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler, commanding the Marine Base at Quantico, said tonight a report that he had received permission to tour the country and lecture on ...
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December 13, 1930, New York Times, Bill to Reward June for Polar Hop Filed; Bingham Would Let Pilot Quit Navy Now With Pay--Crosses for Two of Byrd's Marines,
Smedley D. Butler, commanding the Marine Barracks at Quantico, Va., will present the Navy I Cross to two marines who were members of the Byrd Antarctic ...
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Smedley Butler 1920-1930

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