Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast that, the story goes, guests were given packets of wafers to strew along the corridors showing the way back to their rooms. A guest once rang the servant's bell on Saturday; it was Monday before his man appeared. During one Doncaster race week, a butler walked 54 miles in four days, merely attending his household duties...
...Butler said Brazilian rubber was costing the U.S. "$500 a pound." Reply: he mistook 30,000 tons for 30,000 "pounds"; actual cost...
...lowest artillery level, the New Deal's Senatorial smear specialist, Pennsylvania's Joe Guffey, leveled a bazooka at the literary naivete of Freshman Butler. Delightedly Joe Guffey read to the Senate from Butler's report: "Mexico is a land of beautiful mountains.. ."; of El Salvador, "this little country is picturesque"; of Colombia, "it is full of mountains"; of Chile, it is "long and narrow."Said Senator Guffey drily: "[These observations] show him to be a man of singular powers of observation...
...there was more than such rare sport to the fuss over Hugh Butler's astronomically wrong facts. His accusations enjoyed wide circulation through the Reader's Digest, which sent three writers about South America with him. Some Latin Americans already fear that the end of the New Deal may mean the end of Good Neighborliness. Hugh Butler's partisan rancor would probably travel faster in South America than the news that all major Republican Presidential possibilities unanimously endorsed Good Neighborliness...
...question was not a matter of dollars & cents. Many a returning traveler echoed Hugh Butler's contention that the U.S. was regarded as a sucker, south of the border. What the U.S. was still waiting to see was an able documenting of the ineptitude with which the U.S. spent its Latin American dollars, if only to serve as a guide to an intelligent and effective future policy...