Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Cochran, with a class "A" card from before the war, stands out among the new downhill and slalom prospects, while Al Butler continues in his role as the team's mainstay. Sam King and Hans Estin proved themselves at the Vermont meet the week end before last...
Harvard men pinned included Butler in the heavyweight class, Govind Karki in the 175-pound class, Lauria in the 165-pound class, Ting in the 155-pound class, Fay in the 146-pound class, Trimble in the 136-pound class, King in the 128-pound class, and Bowditch in the 121-pound class...
Nicholas Murray Butler, 83, Columbia University's president emeritus, thought that strikes and lockouts had reached the stage of civil war. His cure: "Prevent strikes and lockouts by law-absolutely...
...Bombay last week "Butler's Buttercups" struggled desperately with the ghost of Subhas Chandra Bose. On the birthday of the onetime Congress party leader who had gone off to lead a Jap-sponsored Indian army and die in a Jap plane crash, thousands of Hindus jammed downtown streets shouting Bose's battle cry, Jai Hind, (Victory to India...
...Round Temple, dividing point between Hindu and Moslem sections of the city, tough, stocky Commissioner Harold Edwin Butler's Buttercups (blue-and-yelow uniformed police) tried to bar the way. When paraders squatted on the pavements, the law hurled tear gas. Up came the Hindus with flailing bamboo lathis (traditionally a police weapon against demonstrators). Police lines broke under their charge, scattered Buttercups were beaten. Pop bottles and stones came flying from housetops together with buckets of water. Barricades of flaming trees were thrown across streets. False alarms called firemen to remote sections where gangs of goondas (hooligans) attacked...