Word: austen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Austen Butler. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, misses no point. If an opposition speaker misstates what he said, Rab is quickly on his feet to set the record straight in his clear, flat voice. If goaded, his reply is quick and effective. Hugh Gaitskell, Labor's lanky and self-confident economist and Butler's predecessor at the Treasury, pricks him with the barbed wish that some day he may hear a Butler speech which does not talk about "unity, stability, flexibility, and all the other 'itys.' " "Those are all nouns or virtues," Butler...
This weekend, at a church in nearby Littlebury, the vicar will pray: "Oh, God, who has taught us to pray concerning our daily bread, bless, we beseech Thee, Thy servant Richard Austen Butler in his gigantic task for our country this coming week." Two days later, to the traditional cries of "Yah, Yah, Yah!", Rab Butler will step to the clerks' table in the House of Commons, open the old red leather dispatch box once used by Gladstone and lay down the budget which will shape the British economy for the coming year...
...Richard Austen Butler...
...sampling of its 4,500,000 readers, Britain's largest tabloid, the breezy London Mirror, asked what Tory they wanted to succeed Churchill if Churchill should retire. Results: Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 50.36%; Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler 35.5%. "The striking feature of the poll is the solid measure of support for Mr. Butler," observed the Mirror. "Even two years ago his name would have meant little to the public." A Gallup poll taken last April confirmed the Mirror's observation. Then the result was: Eden 64%; Butler...
With their No. 1 man out of commission as well as their No. 2 man, the Tories had to drop the mantle of responsibility on someone else. Churchill's choice was one of the party's younger but more impressive figures, 50-year-old Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the able and coldly aloof Chancellor of the Exchequer. So-called theoretician of the Tory Party, Rab Butler was born in India, the son of a British civil servant, became a Cambridge don after chalking up a brilliant scholastic record there, married the heiress of the wealthy Courtauld textile empire...