Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same shuffle new jobs went to Churchill's M.P. son-in-law, Edwin Duncan Sandys, who was made Financial Secretary of the War Office; to Richard Austen Butler, who, after ably defending the Government in Parliament as Under Secretary of the Foreign Office, was made President of the Board of Education...
RAINER MARIA RILKE - E. M. Butler -Macmillan...
Objection was once made to the high literary content of the questionees' responses. Insisted a superior: "That taxi driver you ran this morning looks straight out of Sing Sing and you have him talking like Nicholas Murray Butler. Just put the words down as they come out of their mouths." Jimmy obeyed, not sparing a single dese, dem or dose. Posses of furious questionees stormed the News, and the management frantically ordered Jimmy back to word-painting...
...period. When the Justices stood up after their last session this week, disappeared through the tall sateen-covered curtains behind their chairs and shucked their robes, they were more than eight judges beginning their vacations. The old Court that had blocked Franklin Roosevelt's first New Deal-Butler, Sutherland, Van Devanter, McReynolds-had disappeared, by death or resignation. The transitional Court, of which Chief Justice Hughes was the great symbol, was no more. The new Court that went vacationing this week was the interpreter of a new Constitution...
TIME, May 5 : "General Smith Does a Job " Interesting reading for a Marine buck private under General Butler during the first World...