Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Told for the first time in The Hidden Lincoln is the story of how Robert Lincoln in 1897 was found in his home in Manchester, Vt. burning his father's papers and letters. A friend tried to dissuade him, could not, hurriedly called Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who after "a most earnest discussion of the whole subject" persuaded Robert Lincoln to deposit the remainder in the Library of Congress. There they remain, not to be opened until...
University of Minnesota Regent Pierce Butler (now an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court) picked up the telephone in his Minneapolis law office one September day in 1917, angrily demanded that University President Marion LeRoy Burton call the Board of Regents together at once. A young law clerk in Butler's office named Elmer Austin Benson pricked up his ears when he heard his chief shout the name "Schaper...
...University's political science department, where he had taught 17 years, he was an internationally famed expert on taxation and government. Unaware that his academic neck was about to be chopped, square-bodied William Schaper was suddenly called before the regents September 13, harshly questioned by Pierce Butler about a complaint by the superpatriotic State Commission of Public Safety that he was "a rabid pro-German." Despite his denial of disloyal acts, the regents that night fired him for "his attitude." Schaper's friends charged the real reason for his dismissal was not his attitude toward...
Broken-spirited, Schaper made a precarious living selling washing machines and the like, finally in 1925, when War hysteria had subsided, went to University of Oklahoma as professor of finance. But the incident rankled in the mind of Pierce Butler's young law clerk, Elmer Benson, as he marched up the political ladder. It still rankled when, 20 years later, the law clerk had become the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota. Last week came the day he had been waiting...
...throw mud. This mud cannot help spattering the University and sullying its name in the academic field. Glenn Frank, for instance, may be a fine politician, and a great discovery for the Republican Party, but his activities did not redound to the advantage of Wisconsin. Nor do Nicholas Murray Butler's annual speeches to the economic royalists in Southampton add to the credit of Columbia...