September 24, 2026: Eighteen Thousand Dollars in a Hotel Room

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Opublikowano: 2026-09-24

Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler had already turned down a bond salesman's strange proposals more than once by the time the man showed up at his hotel room with cash in hand. On September 24, 1933, Gerald MacGuire visited Butler in Newark, New Jersey, during a National Guard reunion, and threw $18,000 in thousand dollar bills onto the bed, the latest in a series of approaches that would eventually grow into an alleged plan backed by wealthy industrialists to install Butler as a figurehead leader over a private veterans' army. Butler testified about the plot before Congress the...