Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers on whether the Princess should . be married in rationed austerity or regal state ("Life is too drab," it warned, "to pass up this chance for having fun"), the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, called a committee to arrange for an October wedding in Westminster Abbey, complete with open landaus, guards and 500 guests...
...president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee) in Lexington, Va. And even in the Herald Tribune's home town, the president who had ruled City College for the longest stretch was Alexander Webb, a Union general at Gettysburg. Columbia's 85-year-old President Emeritus Nicholas Murray Butler had no doubts about the matter. Said he: "General Eisenhower's great ability . . . in dealing with world problems [is] precisely what the world needs today in the administration of a great university...
...Eisenhower had been thinking of retiring from the Army (TIME, June 23). Last week he confirmed reports that he has a place to go when he does. Columbia University had asked him to be its president, a job vacant since the retirement in 1946 of blind, aged Nicholas Murray Butler, who had served for 44 years. The probable time for 56-year-old Ike Eisenhower's shift: some time after...
...line Conservatives such stuff was dyed deeper than pink. But the Tory progressives had strong men in their camp. Able Richard Austen Butler, as chairman of the pamphlet-writing group, not only pulled together the suggestions of Eccles and others, but sold The Industrial Charter to Winston Churchill and the Tory "shadow cabinet." It was Butler who expounded the pamphlet's thesis at press conferences. Observers said Butler was the man who deserved most credit for the organizational side of the Tory revival...
Thomas J. Butler, of 69 Spring Street, Watertown, a graduate of Watertown Senior High School...