Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spokesman for the group, John B. Butcher '57, said that "there will probably be opposition to the program, although I think our organization is behind the idea." Butcher is chairman pro-tem for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was organized last year by 20 University pacifists to protest "colonial intervention in Asia...
...free aid proposal follows closely the New England pacifists' project urging the President to send "free quantities of surplus food to China to aid the people now suffering from flood and famine." Butcher hopes that the idea will pick up support, and "help the F.O.R. get on the road again...
...even circulate a petition," Butcher continued, "but the imprisonment of the 13 American fliers in China may really set some people against...
...proposal for aid to China includes a vigorous drive to "bring an outpouring of letters to the President." Butcher said that a letter campaign "would probably have small sacks filled with rice" added as a symbol of the plan...
...paintings, many of them self-portraits, would eventually yield enduring fame. But the young artist, conscious of a weak heart and the imminence of his own death, was careless with his materials, bought pigments and oils in the nearby hardware store. One day in 1951, a rich Dutch butcher paused to admire his prized Ket, a self-portrait that was as exact and detailed as a reflection in a still pond. To the butcher's horror, the pond now seemed roiled; the paint, soft because of impure linseed oil, had started to slide down the subject's face...