Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main troubles with Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Butler is that every time he opens his mouth he waggles his tongue, and every time he waggles his tongue he fans up a sirocco. Last week he did it again: in Washington, Butler invited a group of top reporters to a private dinner and began waggling. Items...
...Massachusetts' John Kennedy, Butler made clear, is his Democratic presidential candidate. If Kennedy wins in the Wisconsin primary, Butler predicted, he should cop the nomination. But if he arrives in Los Angeles with as many as 500 delegates in his pocket and still falls short of the big prize, most Catholics will regard it as "an anti-Catholic maneuver," with dire consequences in the general election...
...barmaid who had married the Secretary of War, came calling, she was received by Mrs. Calhoun "with civility," but the call was never returned. President Andrew Jackson himself, the story goes, begged Floride to return the call in the interest of peace and protocol, but she disdainfully asked her butler to show him the door. The trifling spat widened the political rift between Jackson and his Vice President, probably ended Calhoun's chances to succeed Jackson...
Died. Sir Herbert Grierson, 94, English literary scholar whose pithy analyses (Metaphysical Poets, Donne to Butler) revived the popularity of Donne, Herbert and the other metaphysical poets; in Cambridge, England...
Recession Talk. But the rosy talk of boom on top of boom also brought out some doubters. Vice President William F. Butler of the Chase Manhattan Bank told the committee that "one would look for another recession starting some time in 1961." From Professor Paul A. Samuelson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology came the warning of "a slowing down of the rate of expansion in the last half of 1960, with a downturn to follow some time in 1961." The idea of a 1961 recession, based on postwar economic cycles, is not new, but it is also based on economic...