Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just ahead was the "squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would...
Included among those receiving a total of one ballot were: John W. Aiken (Socialist-Labor), Tallulah Bankhead, Nicholas Murray Butler, R. W. Grover, Tom Harmon, Margie Hart, and A. Hitler...
Even a suave butler, in the person of famed Arthur Treacher of Hollywood, succumbs somewhat to the prevailing laxities. Although managing to maintain a certain propriety through an attempted seduction by Jitterbug Dancer Betty Hutton, when she cautions him "You can't take it with you," Butler Treacher unbends sufficiently to reply: "It wouldn't be very safe to leave it around here, either...
Died. James Butler, 49, rich Manhattan grocery-store and real-estate scion, head of Empire City race track and co-owner of the Maryland State Fair track at Laurel; on the eve of the fall meeting at Empire; of a broken neck, when his horse failed to take a fence jump near Katonah...
Here is how we interpret Dr. Butler's replies to the Spectator and the American committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom...