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...went back to work in the tobacco. He worked until it was so dark he couldn't see, and then he hitched Daisy to the only two cows he had ever owned and dragged them off behind the field for the buzzards to eat. He was afraid to butcher them because of the poison...
...admirable, the same cannot be said of the means. Over the years, the thrust has changed for the worse. In the early days, the purpose was to guard against abuse by telling employers what they were forbidden to do. Today business people commonly echo the complaint of Willard Butcher, president of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Washington has begun to dictate not only what we must do but also how we must do it." Alfred Kahn, the former head of the CAB who is now Carter's anti-inflation chief, insists that "the best lesson is to minimize coercion. Regulators should...
...money was not a sure road to victory. Like Clements and James, Tennessee's Butcher had never held elective office, and he used a lot of his own money in his $4.5 million bid for his state's governorship. But his finances became a campaign issue: he was criticized for his dealings with Georgia Banker Bert Lance and for his hotshot banking practices. His campaign spending also became an issue. Charged Republican Alexander: "Citizens of this state won't let Jake Butcher buy the Governor's office." He was right...
...Butcher last month got the Carter Administration to endorse a $12.5 million federal grant for Energy Expo, a sort of world's fair planned for 1982 in Knoxville. Carter announced approval of the plan even before Commerce Department officials had cleared their share of the grants. "That's why I'm going to make a good Governor," Butcher said last week. "I'm going to have this same kind of influence over the President when I'm Governor...
...bulky red-bearded artist (Volker Spengler). Hermann ignores this, but giggles apprehensively about the infant Nazi Party: "The National Socialists are against the Socialists and also against the Nationalists." In an odd scene witnessed by the distracted chocolate manufacturer, Brownshirts throw bricks at the shopwindow of a Jewish butcher, but the bricks do not seem to shatter the glass...