Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butler Bros...
Nobody quite succeeded in fixing the pattern. Nobody was surprised that President Roosevelt appointed Frank Murphy to succeed Pierce Butler on the Supreme Court; that Solicitor General Robert Jackson stepped up to the Attorney-Generalship (and maybe to a better starting position, said the Washington Post, for a run for the Vice-Presidency); that earnest, aristocratic Francis Biddle of Philadelphia stepped from the Circuit Court of Appeals to the Solicitor-Generalship (TIME, Jan. 8). Nor was there much surprise that five new, long-impending State Department appointments were carried through. Nominations poured from the White House to the Senate...
Tennessee got off to a bad start when Cafego, trying to pass, was nailed far behind his line, and the Trojan powerhouse got going with three first downs in succession. For a while Butler's elegant quick kicks-one went over eleven U. S. C. heads for 62 yds.-kept the Trojans at bay, Then Coach Jones's big boys crunched down to Tennessee's 12-yard line, whence, aided by a heart-breaking Tennessee penalty, they crunched over for a touchdown...
...second half U. S. C. put Tennessee on the spot again by kicking out of bounds at the one-yard line. Tennessee's Butler, standing behind his goal line, gambled desperately on a pass, made it good, and the Volunteers got out to their 19. They came suddenly to life and their backs pitched arrowy passes-to the U. S. C. 33, to the 26, to the 19. There Tennessee fumbled. The U. S. C. powerhouse got going again, put over another touchdown. Score: Southern California 14, Tennessee 0. Power had upset precision...
...four solid hours of Civil War South, negro mammies, hoop skirts, and Clark Gable, all in technicolor--is mighty impressive. Vivien Leigh is absolutely all that could be asked in the way of charm, and Clark Gable, as everyone has known since the book was first published, fits Rhett Butler to perfection...