Word: butler
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Marietta would be an addition to most any party, certainly not excluding those that she throws herself. She uses her opulent New York town house and her impeccable British butler, Collins, to entertain Democratic intellectuals and rank-and-file alike...
...chiefly responsible for the Conservatives' return to power in 1951, and thereafter, will no longer roam the corridors of power. Shadow Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, 64, who twice lost out for the premiership (in 1957 and 1963), and has groomed such potential Prime Ministers as Maudling, Heath and Macleod, was relieved of his job as deputy Prime Minister and the party's most dynamic idea man. Butler's demise seemed inevitable after a pre-election newspaper interview in which Sir Alec's old rival had sardonically hinted at a Tory defeat...
...others: Theodore Roosevelt, 1906; Elihu Root, 1912; Woodrow Wilson, 1919; Charles G. Dawes, 1925; Frank B. Kellogg (Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State), 1929; Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams, 1931; Cordell Hull, 1945; Evangelist John R. Mott and Pacifist Emily G. Balch, 1946; Dr. Ralph Bunche, 1950; Gen. George C. Marshall...
...sooner had the Minister of Science done his bit to embarrass the Tories than Foreign Secretary Rab Butler had a go at it. Campaigning in Manchester, Home had said that the U.S. and Britain had ready a treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons that "could be produced at a moment's notice" for Russia's signature. Whereupon Butler declared airily in an interview that "we've had a chat about it with the Americans," but that there is no such treaty, adding, "After all, I would know. I'm the Foreign Secretary...
...hostile crowd. Even worse, Education Minister Quintin Hogg (who used to be Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...