POLITICAL NOTES: In Philadelphia

A politician, a soldier, and a football coach all mixed up in a rumpus.

The politician was Mayor Freeland W. Kendrick of Philadelphia. Two years ago he announced his intention of "cleaning up the town." He set out to find a fighting police commissioner (Director of Public Safety). He found him. For one reason or another he got rid of him last week.

The soldier is General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines, the fighting police commissioner whom Mayor Kendrick found two years ago. He...

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