Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Stephen Butler Leacock, 74, famed Canadian humorist and economist; after a throat operation in Toronto...
...Stephen Butler Leacock had several distinctions : he was one of the very few contemporary Canadians well-known outside of Canada; he was an economist who had a sense of humor; he taught economics and political science at McGill for 33 years; and he pleased readers throughout the world with his 30 books of light, tolerant satire. Among his best-known works: Literary Lapses, Behind the Beyond, Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy...
Communist Willie Gallacher charged up beside her, along with Arthur Greenwood's Socialists and a heel-kicking bloc of young Tories led by Captain Quintin Hogg. Ruffled Minister Butler wagged a schoolmasterish finger, waved aloft a copy of his bill, cried: a vote for. equal pay will be a vote against "the interests of this great reform," a vote "against the Government...
...Thelma Cazalet Keir, veteran Tory reformist and sister of the late Major Victor Cazalet, killed in the plane crash that brought death to Poland's Premier-General Wladyslaw Sikorski. Mildly she proposed an amendment granting equal pay to women teachers. Gently the Government's respected Richard Austen Butler, President of the Board of Education, objected that equal pay had nothing to do with the Education Bill, should be considered at some other time...
Vainly did effervescent Lady Astor seek to settle things. Why not, she asked, let the House vote on teachers' pay without involving the question of confidence in the Government? Other members echoed her plea. But Minister Butler, pale and impatient, roughly retorted: "Childish. ... I am here to give a lead. ... I must put myself and the Government in the hands of the House...