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	Smedley Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye," was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
		Butler was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the oldest in a family of three sons.
		Butler was educated at the West Chester Friends Graded High School and later at the Haverford Preparatory School, an elite secondary school for sons of upper-class Quaker families near Philadelphia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smedley_Butler (2457 words)

	HD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps' long history, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.
		He was the son of Thomas S. Butler, a Representative in Congress from the Delaware-Chester County district of Pennsylvania for over three decades and a longtime chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee.
		In April 1899, 1stLt Butler was assigned to duty with the Marine Battalion at Manila, Philippine Islands.
	hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil /HD/Historical/Whos_Who/Butler_SD.htm (660 words)

	Marine Corps Legacy Museum - Smedley D. Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Smedley Darlington Butler was born at West Chester, PA on July 30, 1881.
		It was during this action that Butler was awarded one of the rarest of American decorations for valor, the Marine Corps Brevet Medal.
		By 1927 Butler was again in China and upon his completion of his tour there he returned to the States in 1929 as a Major General.
	www.mclm.com /tohonor/sbutler.html (1113 words)

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		Smedley Butler served his country for 34 years, yet he spoke against American armed intervention into the affairs of sovereign nations.
		Butler also learned how the political connections to his Congressional father could serve his career so well especially since his father was a senior member of the House Naval Affairs Committee.
		Butler was to use his political connections with his father during this operation to have a career ending disability waived by the Marine Corps.
	post701.4godandcountry.com /butler.html (2157 words)

	Potable Power
		Butler was charged with the unenviable tasks of enforcing probation and curbing widespread police corruption in the city.
		Butler took immediate steps to strengthen his control over the police department, reducing the number of police districts and centralizing appointments within his own office in order to reduce the ability of magistrates to select the members of the force in their ward.
		Butler returned to the Marine Corps after a barbed public speech in which he said, "I have been fighting in a battle where the head of the show was disloyal and everything was crooked.
	exhibitions.library.temple.edu /prohibition/smedley.jsp (391 words)

	Smedley Butler - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881– June 21, 1940), nicknamed "the fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye," was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and at the time of his death the most decorated marine in U.S. history.
		Butler was twice the recipient of the Medal of Honor, one of only 19 to be so honored; he is noted for his outspoken left-wing views and his book War is a Racket, one of the first works describing the military-industrial complex.
		Between 1935 and 1937, Butler served as a spokesman for the League Against War and Fascism, a leftist organization.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Smedley_Butler (356 words)

	War is a Racket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Smedley Darlington Butler.
		War is a Racket (1935) is a short work by former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, where Butler discusses how business interests have commercially benefited from warfare.
		Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidised by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_is_a_Racket (142 words)

	Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Butler was a prominent public figure in the early decades of the 20th century, well known for being a soldier's soldier disdainful of military bureaucrats, a highly decorated war hero, and an advocate and enforcer of Prohibition in the 1920's as Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety.
		Butler's leave expires that you will try and teach him that a General should be a gentleman and a leader such as Pershing and Wood and not a common soldier.
		Butler viewed particular business interests as being the prime beneficiaries, not only in the sense that the military was often sent into harm's way to serve a special interest, but also because those businesses benefitted from military spending.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/July2002/0702Stooksbury.html (1978 words)

	wais:Re: US Marines General Smedley Butler February 2005
		Marine General Michael Sullivan writes: I didn't know General Smedley Butler as he had retired before I was born, however, his reputation as a powerful Marine leader and warrior is well known and respected throughout the Corps.
		General Smedley was undoubtedly also being sincere, but whatever the failings of U.S. interventions in Latin America in the early 20th century, these are cartoonishly oversimplified in Smedley Butler's bitter piece.
		Regarding Marine General Smedley Butler's expression of disillusionment with the role of the Marines in Latin America, I said: It is now widely accepted that the military need not obey an order which they deem illegal.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week020105/us_050201_usmarinesbutler.htm (1430 words)

	Smedley D Butler - Infantrymen's Military-Forum.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In April 1899, Lieutenant Butler was assigned to duty with the Marine Battalion at Manila, Philippine Islands.
		His father was Thomas S. Butler, for over thirty years a Representative in Congress from the Delaware-Chester County district of Pennsylvania, and a longtime chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee.
		The USS Butler, a destroyer, later converted to a high speed minesweeper, was named for General Butler in 1942.
	www.goinfantry.com /forum/showthread.php?t=2475 (2119 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Ollie and Old Gimlet Eye
		His name was Smedley Darlington Butler, and his politics became very different from North’s, but he, too, eventually found that the untrammeled zeal of the sort that lets Marines take a hill and bring back their dead under fire is often out of sync with civilian life.
		Butler is the subject of a new biography by Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History; it is a sturdy, scholarly study, nowhere near as lively or colorful as its subject but instructive nonetheless.
		Butler, one private, and a sergeant named Ross L. lams together scrambled up the slope, bullets pecking into the ground around them, and reached the foot of the wall, to find that the only way in was a storm drain, through which the defenders kept up a steady fire.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1987/7/1987_7_14.shtml (1453 words)

	Smedley D. Butler Citation: Congressional Medal of Honor Society
		Butler was eminent and conspicuous in command of his battalion.
		Reaching the fort on the southern side where there was a small opening in the wall, Maj. Butler gave the signal to attack and marines from the 15th Company poured through the breach, engaged the Cacos in hand-to-hand combat, took the bastion and crushed the Caco resistance.
		Throughout this perilous action, Maj. Butler was conspicuous for his bravery and forceful leadership.
	www.cmohs.org /medal/history_links/s_butler.htm (238 words)

	The Plot To Seize The White House - II - The Indispensable Man
		Butler was in the forefront of the assault, which required breaking through an outer mud wall twenty feet high and crossing fifteen hundred yards of rice paddies to an inner high stone wall.
		Meanwhile Butler had become increasingly irked by the fact that the pressure of powerful hotels and the Hotel Association had kept their ballroom social affairs, at which liquor was served to young teen-age girls from socially prominent Philadelphia families, from being raided for liquor violations.
		Butler's presence in Washington was occasioned by the outbreak of a fresh crisis in China.
	www.clubhousewreckards.com /plot/ptstwh2theindispensableman.htm (22805 words)

	Service Pages \| Smedley Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
		Smedley Butler's words which are forever inscribed in a class of their own for their candor, accuracy, and courage.
		We are happy to reproduce his statements here as their relevancy, far from vanishing, has actually grown since he first uttered them.
	www.cjonline.org /sButler.htm (727 words)

	Marine Corps History Books: Smedley Butler
		Butler, Smedley (Anne Cipriano Venzon, ed), GENERAL SMEDLEY DARLINGTON BUTLER: The Letters of a Leatherneck, 1891-1931.
		They intended to use a paramilitary organization of disgruntled WWI veterans inspired by Marine General Smedley D. Butler to coerce the government.
		But Butler, discovering the details of the conspiracy, blew the whistle, triggering a Congressional investigation.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /smedley.html (287 words)

	The Marine Corps Wives Website Electronic Publications Page
		The penetrating stare that brought Smedley Darlington Butler the nickname "Old Gimlet Eye" was in evidence most of his career -- as was his maneuvering to influence the selection of the Marine Corps's top leadership.
		Such was the case of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, whose service began in 1898 with the Spanish-American War and ended in 1931 -- with a reprimand in lieu of a threatened court-martial.
		With Butler pressing his case, Williams received a court-martial, was found guilty, and was punished with a loss of numbers on the lineal list.
	www.chadduck.com /ymarines/library/documents/gimlet.html (1956 words)

	Smedley Butler, from Wikipedia
		An immensely popular figure in the United States at the time, Butler led the Bonus Army and came forward to the U.S. Congress in 1933 to report that a failed coup had been plotted by wealthy industrialists to overthrow the government of
		Butler was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and was the Quaker son of Senator Thomas S. Butler.
		This story caused international outrage, and Butler was arrested and court-martialed at the insistance of Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson.
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	Maj. General Smedley Butler, USMC - ShopForum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An immensely popular figure in the United States at the time, Butler led the Bonus Army and came forward to the U.S. Congress in 1933 to reveal a Business Plot by wealthy industrialists to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		I think Butler's time and the actions he was called on to carry out were less noble and he spoke to that.
		I think Butler was a man who deeply understood the sacrifices of the common soldier and spoke out on the mis-use of them.
	www.mercedesshop.com /shopforum/showthread.php3?p=886350 (2817 words)

	Democracy Rising "Interview" with Smedley D. Butler, Major General, USMC - DemocracyRising.US
		Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.
		General Butler was born in 1881 and raised as a Quaker.
		General Butler is no longer with us in body, but his spirit and his popularity live on.
	democracyrising.us /content/view/191/164 (1915 words)

	Smedley Butler
		He attempted to lure Butler into their traitorous scheme: march 500,000 veterans on the capitol and forcibly seize FDR.
		Butler demurred and revealed the story at public Congressional hearings in 1934.
		His story was corroborated by Veterans of Foreign Wars commander James Van Zandt, who testified that he had been approached to lead the 500,000-man march on Washington.
	www.nndb.com /people/572/000055407 (118 words)

	General Smedley Darlington Butler — www.greenwood.com
		Description: Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a maverick Marine, the emblem of "the old corps," and one of the most controversial figures in Marine history.
		This work is an annotated edition of his letters covering the period from Butler's commissioning as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps to his retirement as a Major General.
		General Butler won two Congressional Medals of Honor, as well as numerous other U.S. and foreign medals, including two Umbrellas of Ten Thousand Blessings from two Chinese cities--honors never before given to a non-Chinese.
	www.greenwood.com /books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=C4141 (240 words)

	Smedley Butler: War is a Racket
		Hans Schmidt, in his 1987 biography of Butler, Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History, offers the following assessment: "Much of War is a Racket was stock antiwar, anti-imperialist idiom, part of an American tradition dating back to the eighteenth century.
		Butler's particular contribution was his recantation, denouncing war on moral grounds after having been a warrior hero and spending most of his life as a military insider.
		Like everything else on the Scuttlebutt & Small Chow site, General Butler's tract is presented here in the interest of its historical significance, not as an espousal of a particular view.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /racket.html (165 words)

	Smedley Darlington Butler - Marine [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		Butler's a hero in my book for trying to tell the world about these millionaire bastards.
		Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) blew the whistle on the little- known plot of the title.
		Butler, a major general at 48, retired from the Marine Corps in 1931.
	www.stormfront.org /archive/t-172470Do_you_do_the_Santa/t-26078.html (1759 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - WAR IS A RACKET by Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U.S.M.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Butler was a True Patriot who won the Medal of Honor twice.
		Grunts, noncoms, and combat officers believed Butler was their friend.
		After prying out all the plans he could, Butler asked a friend, an experienced newsman, to confirm the whole incredible scheme.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID66/5971.html (1193 words)

	Smedley Butler - Wikiquote
		Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (30 July 1881 – 21 June 1940), one of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps' long history, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.
		Reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934.
		A reporter (a Butler confidant) testified MacGuire said, "We might go along with Roosevelt and then do with him what Mussolini did with the King of Italy." Which was, made him a figure-head.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Smedley_Butler (557 words)

	SMEDLEY DARLINGTON BUTLER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 02/16/1931
		SMEDLEY D. Two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner sends thanks.
		Trusting that I may see you and make a better showing in the way of thanks, I am, with grateful regards." Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) was one of a few soldiers who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.
		On October 1, 1931, he was retired upon his own application after completion of 33 years service in the Marine Corps.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/1_2002/military/SMEDLEY_DARLINGTON_BUTLER.htm (277 words)

	Amazon.ca: General Smedley Darlington Butler: The Letters of a Leatherneck, 1898-1931: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a maverick marine, the emblem of "the old corps," and one of the most controversial figures in Marine history.
		This work is an annotated edition of his letters covering the period from Butler's commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps to his retirement as a Major General.
		Top of Page : General Smedley Darlington Butler: The Letters of a Leatherneck, 1898-1931
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0275941418 (219 words)

	Butler - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism
		Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler, a 33-year veteran of the Marine Corps who was twice decorated with the Medal of Honor, blew the whistle on the fascist plot to oust FDR.
		For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it....
		Smedley D. Butler, "America's Armed Forces, 'In Time of Peace'"
	coat.ncf.ca /our_magazine/links/53/butler.html (848 words)

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