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...good hater, Butler never hesitates to call names or mention them. There was little love lost between himself and former Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. Once when the Secretary was inspecting Quantico, which Butler took pride in believing was the "finest post in the U. S.," Adams humphed at everything he saw, finally pointed to a stadium Butler was building for his men, snorted: "That's one of your damned follies." Last big row in which Butler was the central figure came in 1929, when he was arrested and ordered court-martialed for retailing an anecdote...
...Roosevelt is a Democrat, has been acquainted with the President for years. After three years at the U. S. Naval Academy, he resigned to take a commission in the Marine Corps, saw service in the Philippines, Panama, Cuba, Haiti. During the War he was assistant quartermaster at Marine Barracks, Quantico. Va. Resigning in 1920, he became European representative for Radio Corp. of America with headquarters at Paris. His wife was well-to-do Eleanor Morrow of San Francisco, daughter of a Federal Judge (no kin of the Englewood, N. J. Morrows and their Anne Morrow Lindbergh...
...course commissioned Ensigns in the United States Naval Reserve or Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve. Of the successful candidates, about half a dozen are ordered to one year's active duty with the Aircraft Squadrons of the fleet, or with the Marine Corps Expeditionary Force at Quantico, Virginia, or at San Diego, California. During this year, they will receive the pay and allowances of their rank...
...knocked him from his chair, Vice President Geoffry S. Childs of Autogiro Co. of America could not have been more violently upset than he was by what he read in the Philadelphia Inquirer one day last week: a story stating that a Navy 'giro had cracked up at Quantico, Va. because a rotor blade had carried away...
...Their [Adams' and Butler's] relations were further strained when General Butler laughingly introduced Mr. Adams at a Quantico dinner as 'the Secretary of the God-damned Navy...