Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas Democrats went all the way. New Dealers never had a chance. Months before the Democratic state convention, smooth, affable George A. Butler, a Houston lawyer who heads the Democratic executive committee, had politicked all over Texas lining up anti-Fourth Term delegates...
When the convention opened in the granite Senate chamber of the capitol at Austin last week, George Butler had the votes to crack the whip. Every speech, every motion the New Dealers made was drowned out in boos and catcalls. When handsome, New Dealing Representative Lyndon B. Johnson hovered near the platform to prompt pro-Roosevelt speakers, the Texans shouted, "Throw Roosevelt's pin-up boy out of there. Get that yes man off the platform...
...first test came on picking a keynoter. Boss Butler's choice was onetime Governor Dan Moody, who waited outside the chamber nervously chewing a cigar. (When a friend gave him a congratulatory slap on the back, Dan Moody accidentally swallowed the butt, rushed to the drugstore for sodium bicarbonate.) Up rose Alvin J. Wirtz, red-hot Fourth Termer, to propose the name of onetime Governor James V. Allred. His voice was barely heard above the shouting. When the vote came, anti-Fourth Termers had won, 940-to-774. On a second vote, to pledge Texas electors absolutely to vote...
...correspondent for Harper's. But "Heinie" Faust was, more notably, the incredibly prolific "King of the Pulps" who wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...
...Prime Minister's office on Downing Street a hurried parley took place. Under Britain's system of Government responsibility to Parliament, Winston Churchill could do one of four things: 1) call for a vote of Parliamentary confidence; 2) fire Minister Butler; 3) resign himself; 4) get the King's permission to "go to the country," i.e., ask Britons to decide the issue at a general election...