Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THREE YEARS WITH EISENHOWER (911 pp.)-Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR-Simon & Schuster...
...Harry Butcher was a vice president of the Columbia Broadcasting System when he went into the Navy, as a lieutenant commander,"in 1942. He might have spent the rest of the war in the Navy's Communications Division had he never worked for a trade paper called the Fertilizer Review...
...couple of years out of Iowa State College, Butcher was in Washington editing the Review when he happened to meet an up-&-coming young major named Eisenhower. In June 1942, when Eisenhower was named Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations, he decided that he wanted Lieut. Commander Butcher as one of his aides...
...Three Years with Eisenhower is the result: Harry Butcher's detailed, gossipy record of the period July 1942-July 1945. Written day by day on the spot, and now edited down to something like half its original size, it is still a warehouse of high-command anecdotes and behind-the-scenes yarns. Butcher was at the General's elbow much of the time ("he wanted . . . an old friend around to whom he could talk eye to eye"), ran errands for him, played bridge with him, sometimes shared the same room. No one else had readier access to Eisenhower...
...international vice presidents of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (A.F. of L.) are attending classes-Harry Poole of Philadelphia and Marvin Hook of St. Louis. Hook believes, generally, "that any union is right when it demands more money...