Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had happened to Harold Stassen in the Nebraska primary? He had invaded the state, asked Nebraska Republicans to repudiate old-line, isolationist Senator Hugh Butler, and give the G.O.P. senatorial nomination to liberal Governor Dwight Griswold. The result: a landslide for Butler. Had presidential aspirant Stassen dived under a steamroller or just got his finger caught in a wringer...
...Stassen's backers and many another G.O.P. liberal insisted that their boy was hardly scratched. Butler, they argued, had a vast, statewide organization, was backed by all top party leaders, had had a great edge on Griswold from the beginning. Also Butler claimed he was not really an isolationist...
Before the war he had been successively schoolteacher, college instructor, weekly newspaper editor, had acted as campaign manager for Senator Butler, secretary for Governor Griswold. In winning an impressive primary victory last week he all but cinched the governorship of Republican Nebraska...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University's president emeritus, now 84 and blind, took no active part in the Commencement exercises for the first time in more than 40 years. Photographed in his new role of bystander, he was a study in dignity and academic majesty...
While he practices at his piano, Valencia-born Iturbi often dictates letters to his secretary or talks to his two grandchildren. He speaks to his grandchildren in Spanish, to his butler in Italian, to his close friend Director Jean Negulesco in French, to others in a somewhat mangled English...