Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term loans. Before leaving he gave an out-of-the-ordinary going-away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There...
Technocracy was good meat to Nicholas Murray Butler a month ago. In his annual Columbia University report, he beamed upon "a group of engineers who. impressed by the recent quickening of productivity and the enormous new possibilities which lie still ahead of us in this field, urge the desirability of an entirely new system of control which they term technocracy. Without accepting their inferences, the data which they are accumulating regarding the efficiency of modern production and its methods will have to be taken into account in any serious study of this whole question...
Last week President Butler's Dean Joseph Warren 'Barker defended much- criticized Technocracy, explained: "There are two clearly marked divisions in this discussion as far as Columbia University is concerned, 1) The factual survey of the energy production rates on this continent; 2) the personal opinions and conclusions of the individual members of Technocracy. . . . We are interested in the factual study. But with the second part the University has assumed no responsibility...
Nonetheless, Columbia was factually entertaining the Technocrats. A cry arose when the community discovered that $5,700 per month of unemployment relief was enabling the Technocrats to predict everlasting unemployment. Last week President Butler sidestepped: "Columbia University has no more to do with Technocracy than it has with the Fourth Dimension...
Shoehorned humbly into a group of presumably sane people-his host, a lawyer, two girl friends, a housekeeper, a butler, a detective and the host's sister- Parker progressively webs them all in their own words and impales them on insane lip-logic. An opportunist juggling ideals, he shifts positions faster than the others, stares long & unfazed into their faces, razzle-dazzles them with winning sophistries until he has confused, ingratiated, amazed, enraged, baffled and terrified them...