Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointment was regarded by old-fashioned trustbusters of the Borah school as a rather bad joke. Arnold was a cynic, a word-juggler, a clown. With a background of Wyoming sheepherding, Princeton ('11) and Harvard Law ('14), he had returned from the war to help General Smedley Butler drive the prostitutes from New Orleans. Said he: "I didn't even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back in Wyoming, where he became the sole Democrat in the Legis lature, and was elected mayor of Laramie by nine votes...
...National Scholarship winners are: Philip W. Anderson, Urbana, Illinois; Burton P. Block, Fountain City, Tennessee; William J. Bouwsma, Lincoln, Nebraska; John B. Bowman, Alliance, Ohio; Gordon M. Browne Jr., St. Louis, Missouri; George M. Burditt, Jr., LaGrange, Illinois; John J. Butler, Highwood, Illinois; John E. Corrigan, Jr., Chicago, Illinois; Joseph D. Grandine, Crandon, Wisconsin; Jackson E. Hardy, Santa...
...bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (Hearst's International News Service) danced with excitement on a roof in Fleet Street. But on Dover's cliffs a bomb fell three yards away from Cameraman James Gemmell (British Paramount News), gouged a crater 20 feet deep, failed to explode. Frank Butler (I. N. S.) was hit by falling machine-gun cartridge cases, unharmed...
...Former Chairman John Butler Jameson of New Hampshire's Democratic State Committee, saying: "As an American who is much more interested in the welfare of the country than in the success of any political party, I shall vote for Willkie...
Died. Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 58, hawk-nosed, "gimlet-eyed" stormy petrel of the U. S. Marine Corps; of an abdominal ailment; in Philadelphia. Oft-decorated, multi-nicknamed General Butler, at 37 the youngest Marine officer ever to win the rank of brigadier general, fought in 14 battles and skirmishes, earned a legendary reputation for reckless bravery. His barrackroom language got him into more trouble than did his battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled...