Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in the headlines oftener than they were. The answer was that their arguments were largely intramural; they had not got in spectacular knockdown fights with other branches of Government, as for example, had their predecessors, the Nine Old Men. That court, dominated by McReynolds, Van Devanter, Sutherland and Butler, defiantly stood against a social revolution. This court was part of the revolution...
...They blame themselves more than the children, and it is lucky for them that they are so merciful. For, in the very course of probing the children's small sin to the bottom, their own larger sins suddenly escape out of the past and confront them. The family butler turns out to be Sir Roderick's son. One of the schoolteachers proves to be a son of Grandpa Firebrace. And the second Lady Shelley, it turns out, has sold jewelry that does not belong...
...Robert Butler, Ambassador to Cuba. Butler is a St. Paul shipbuilder, banker and construction man, and a longtime Democratic moneyman. Appointed Ambassador to Australia in 1946, he was moved to Cuba in 1948, served as a member of Johnson's fund-raising committee. He gave the legal maximum, $5,000. Other contributors from the diplomatic service: former Ambassador to Brazil William Pawley ($5,000); Ambassador to Argentina James Bruce and wife ($4,000) ; Ambassador to Canada Laurence A. Steinhardt and daughter ($10,000); EGA Ambassador W. Averell Harriman ($5,000); former Under Secretary Will Clayton and wife...
Everyone had different ideas on what was wrong. Some oldtimers at Butler Bros, thought Retailer Herberger had neglected the wholesale end of the business, which had been a moneymaker. Others thought he had scrambled wholesale & retail together until nobody could find his way through either. Herberger blamed his troubles on deadwood in the company -and hacked away. So many officers and employees left that gagsters called Butler Bros, the Montgomery Ward annex. Finally, aging Thomas Freeman, who was boosted to chairman when Herberger replaced him as president, quit in disgust...
Last week, Herberger looked something like deadwood himself. The board got him to kick himself upstairs to chairman. In as president went 54-year-old Bert Prall, Butler's retail boss. Bespectacled, garden-loving Bert Prall was a tougher man than he looked. Before resigning as a Montgomery Ward vice president in 1946, he had stood up for 15 years under Sewell Avery-and had long been manager of hard lines. As boss of money-losing Butler Bros., Prall might find it was still hard lines...