Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orgy of destruction was followed by an orgy of recrimination. Civilians blamed the military. Mayor Alan Butler complained that 4,000 sailors had been given shore leave the first day of the riot, another 4,000 had been turned loose the second day. Said the Halifax Star: the Navy's part in the riot was "disgraceful and despicable." Said Rear Admiral Leonard Warren Murray: "Civilians led the assault...
...Pick Nick." A New Jersey merchant's son who did his childhood prattling in Greek, Murray Butler wasted no time. Graduating from high school at 13, he entered Columbia three years later, soon became its biggest undergraduate "bun-yanker" (honor-grabber). At 20 he graduated as top man in his class, at 21 acquired his M.A., at 22 his Ph.D. He promptly became a Columbia teacher and founded Teachers College in his spare time...
...Republican by family tradition, Dr. Butler was a party man from the time he went as a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention. In 1912 he became the G.O.P. vice-presidential candj-date and went down to defeat with Taft. In 1920 he made a bold bid for the Presidential nomination with the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Pic-Nic in November." He got only 69 votes...
...Bets. After that, Dr. Butler...
...unhappy faculty for backing the loser: the Kaiser until World War I, Harding until the oil scandals, the early Mussolini who made the trains run on time. Despite his good words for academic freedom, students and teachers often denounced his conservative leanings. Since World War II began, Dr. Butler has been comparatively silent on extracurricular matters. In the house at 60 Morningside Drive which Columbia has built around him, and around which he has built Columbia, Dr. Butler made no public comment about his resignation, effective October i. But he once told admirers that, if they opened him, they would...