Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy siege guns of the Administration last week joined in annihilating drumfire on a lone freshman Republican Senator. The Senator: Nebraska's hum drum Hugh Butler, who huffed back from a South American journey with wild tales and wilder figures to show that Good Neighborliness was a $6-billion boondoggle (TIME...
...Churchill's." President Roosevelt drove about Cairo in a special Packard, bulletproofed with sheets of glass that weighed 90 lb. He called it "my county jail." His driver was Master Sergeant Harold A. Crotta, of Butler, N.J., who proudly showed correspondents a little pile of cigar ash on the running board. Said Sergeant Crotta: "Yep. It's Churchill...
Section A leader Butler, the man who puts a lilt into his cadence, proved himself the master of a situation the other afternoon. The section had been considerably handicapped by another group in marching from the Yard to Langdell and as the rival columns approached the entrance to Langdell, Mr. Butler's command to Section A was "column left, charge!" Section A's marching, incidentally, improved considerably with the help of Butler's rhythmic chant...
...farrago of wild charges, ill-tempered shots at Latin American governments as well as his own, and oldtime partisan oratory, snowy-haired Hugh Butler charged that over three years the U.S. was spending $6 billion to win friends south of the border. (In an appendix, his figures grew to $8 billion.) Into the cost of Good Neighborism, Butler had even put the $75 million cost of operating the Panama Canal. He had charged to Latin American good will the $292 million the Navy spent on Caribbean and Canal defenses...
...Hugh Butler's mathematics got quick corrections. Tennessee's bulb-nosed Kenneth McKellar interrupted Butler's oratory to set the cost of Good Neighborliness at $2,207 million. Few hours later, Interamerican Coordinator Nelson Rockefeller totted it up, got less than $600 million. Henry Wallace summed up: "fantastic figures ... a shocking slur...